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  • Insight: Election drapes ‘bail-out’ in a politically incorrect shade (Financial Times)

    When is a bail-out not quite a bail-out? When it occurs in a US election year, it might seem. Or that, at least, is the cynical thinking floating around some well-informed market minds.
    2008-03-13 10:50:06

  • Meet your new banker: Uncle Sam (CNN Money)

    With a vicious storm pelting the markets, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is urging bankers to batten down the hatches - possibly foreshadowing an expanded government role as a financial-sector investor.
    2008-03-13 10:55:16

  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-03-13 17:26 GMT: London shares close off lows; NY weak recovering, proposed rescue plan UPDATE (Interactive Investor)

    (updating with further details)
    2008-03-13 10:59:27

  • French prosecutors oppose rogue trader Kerviel's release (Muzi)

    French prosecutors will ask a Paris court to keep rogue trader Jerome Kerviel behind bars while investigators probe a multi-billion-euro scandal at Societe Generale, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
    2008-03-13 11:01:46

  • Despite the Federal Reserve's efforts Wall Street fears a big US bank is in trouble (Times Online)

    Global stock markets may have cheered the US Federal Reserve yesterday, but on Wall Street the Fed's unprecedented move to pump $280 billion (£140 billion) into global markets was seen as a sure sign that at least one financial institution was struggling to survive.
    2008-03-13 11:22:45

  • Schwab Authorizes Additional Stock Repurchase (wallstreet:online AG)

    The Board of Directors of The Charles Schwab Corporation has authorized repurchases of up to an additional
    2008-03-13 11:25:04

  • US Stocks Bounce; Traders Clutch At S&P Write-Down View (INO News)

    NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. stocks bounced higher Thursday afternoon as a report that the end was in sight for bank write-downs offset some of the fears about a credit market freeze and an imploding hedge fund.
    2008-03-13 11:47:16

  • Gold Tops $1,000 an Ounce as Dollar Drops, Credit Losses Widen (Bloomberg.com)

    March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Gold rose above $1,000 an ounce for the first time as mounting credit-market losses spurred demand for bullion as a haven from the sagging dollar and equities.
    2008-03-13 11:49:52

  • U.K. Gilts Rise as Carlyle Capital Fails to Agree With Lenders

    Bloomberg - ... from the narrowest point in a week as investors bet on lower interest rates to stoke the economy combined with accelerating inflation. Stocks around the world fell and the dollar weakened to a record against the euro after Carlyle Group 's mortgage ...
    2008-03-13 10:16:00

  • Stocks swoon as dollar falls, gold jumps

    Boston Globe - Talk of regulatory changes for the mortgage industry did little to dislodge Wall Street's glum mood. ... The Fed's Open Markets Committee meets next Tuesday and is widely expected to lower interest rates, with many analysts ...
    2008-03-13 08:36:00

  • U.S. Stocks Tumble on Carlyle Fund's Default, Retail Sales

    Bloomberg - Bear Stearns Cos. , the second-biggest underwriter of U.S. mortgage bonds, extended a drop that has wiped out a third of its ... and brokerages in the S&P 500 have fallen almost 27 percent as a group since the Federal Reserve started cutting rates last ...
    2008-03-13 10:09:00

  • Broker: Freddie Mac's loan guidelines are good news

    Santa Cruz Sentinel - ... increase in conforming loan limits will allow us to provide much-needed liquidity and stability to the jumbo portion of the residential mortgage market, and is in the best interest of the economy and consumers." Boutell had expected jumbo loan rates ...
    2008-03-13 10:02:00

  • Crude Oil Is Steady After Rising to Record on Weak U.S. Dollar

    Bloomberg - The euro rose over the past year as the Federal Reserve cut rates amid the worst housing slump in a quarter of a century, and $190 billion of U.S. subprime-mortgage- related losses and markdowns by financial institutions.
    2008-03-13 09:12:00

  • MyClosingSPACE.com Announces Nationwide Expansion of Its Title ...

    Forbes - ... first online title insurance and closing services company, has announced it is now available to new homebuyers, mortgage ... and Florida as a test for what it called a revolutionary new title industry business model committed to the lowest rates ...
    2008-03-13 09:55:00

  • How's Business? It's time to buy a house

    Bayside Times Ledger - Real estate prices in Queens have slipped into the affordable range, which helps when coming up with that initial down payment. Interest rates still appear to be headed downward, which also can reduce your overall monthly mortgage payment.
    2008-03-13 09:48:00

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