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  • Ahead of the Bell: Mortgage Applications

    BusinessWeek - ... will show whether mortgage applications rose for the second-straight week as borrowers took advantage of lower rates. The Mortgage ... The index has fluctuated over the past 18 months after sinking in June 2006 to 529.6, its lowest level since 2002.
    2008-03-12 03:22:00

  • Dollar Trades Near Record Low Versus Euro as Credit Losses Rise

    Bloomberg - ... report today that may show U.S. consumer confidence fell this month to the lowest in 16 years, giving the Federal Reserve more reason to cut interest rates ... The group said lenders will seize the assets of its mortgage-bond fund, a day after Drake ...
    2008-03-13 04:57:00

  • Australia's Westpac March consumer sentiment index lowest since Sept ...

    CNBC - ... Consumer sentiment in Australia slumped to its lowest level in March since September 1993, weighed down by rising interest rates and ... Gloom over the increases in interest rates has probably been compounded by additional mortgage rate increases by ...
    2008-03-11 10:14:00

  • Australia Consumer Sentiment Slumps as Rates Rise

    CNBC - The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index fell 9.1 percent in March to 88.6, the lowest reading ... Commercial banks have also raised their mortgage and lending rates by even more than the central bank as the global credit crunch ...
    2008-03-11 10:29:00

  • White House Unveils Plan to Overhaul Credit Rules

    NPR News - It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame for ... Japan has one of the highest savings rates in the world; the U.S. among the lowest.
    2008-03-13 04:50:00

  • Dollar at record lows

    Kansas City Star - ... strategist for CMC Markets in New York."The continued damage in the mortgage ... Federal Reserve will continue to cut interest rates.Lower interest rates ... Japan's main stock index plunged to its lowest close in 2 1/2 years Thursday, as ...
    2008-03-13 03:24:00

  • White House Unveils Plan to Overhaul Credit Rules (NPR)

    The Bush Administration unveiled its plan Thursday for overhauling the vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets. It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame, and it proposed that mortgage brokers be licensed and added new voluntary guidelines.
    2008-03-13 04:16:20

  • Stocks fall as dollar slides, gold jumps; retail sales decline rather than rise as expected (Park Hills Daily Journal)

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks tumbled Thursday morning as investors recoiled following a further decline in the dollar, spikes in gold and oil prices and a warning that a Carlyle Group fund is near collapse. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent; the Dow Jones industrial average at times fell more than 200 points.
    2008-03-13 04:17:57

  • Paulson: Balance Is Key in Plan to Fix Credit Crisis (NPR)

    As the U.S. dollar hit a 12-year low Thursday in relation to the yen, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talks with Melissa Block about the weakness of the dollar and recommendations from the president's working group on shoring up the nation's financial services sector.
    2008-03-13 04:18:10

  • What the U.S. Can Learn From Japan's 'Lost Decade' (NPR)

    Japan's experience with its own real estate crisis offers important lessons for the U.S. America has some distinct advantages compared with what Japan went through in 1990 -- and some disadvantages.
    2008-03-13 04:20:08

  • US consumers curb spending; labour market weak (Straits Times)

    WASHINGTON - UNITED States consumers cut their spending in February and the labour market continued to weaken, suggesting the pillar that had supported the economy's expansion may be giving way.
    2008-03-13 04:53:18

  • Dollar Trades Near Record Low Versus Euro as Credit Losses Rise (Bloomberg.com)

    March 14 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar traded near a record low against the euro and close to the weakest level in 12 years versus the yen on concern widening losses in credit markets will further crimp U.S. economic growth.
    2008-03-13 05:36:42

  • Bank of Israel purchases dollars, intervenes in foreign currency market (Haaretz Daily)

    The Bank of Israel intervened in the foreign currency market yesterday for the first time since 1997 and bought dollars.
    2008-03-13 06:11:44

  • Stocks Recoup Losses On S&P Forecast (CBS4 Miami)

    A fractious Wall Street rebounded from an early plunge to finish moderately higher Thursday, after Standard & Poor's predicted financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have devastated the stock and credit markets.
    2008-03-13 06:38:00

  • One Ill Compounds Another, Hammering the Economy (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Call it a perfect storm: on Thursday, the dollar plumbed new lows, the price of gold jumped above $1,000 for the first time and lenders raised home loans once again.
    2008-03-13 06:39:03

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