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  • Mortgage applications fall as interest rates rise

    Providence Business News - Its 3,000 member companies include mortgage firms, commercial banks, thrifts, life insurance companies and others. Additional information, including the MBA’s Weekly Application Survey, is available at www.mortgagebankers.org
    2008-02-20 08:02:00
  • Atlantic Canadians Most Anxious To Buy First Home Sooner: Survey

    CNW Group - They are interested in mortgage insurance options that will help them become homeowners sooner and more affordably, and Genworth offers a range of solutions to help make it all manageable.
    2008-02-20 07:19:00
  • Expert: Exotic Financial Markets May Collapse Next

    KDKA - NEW YORK (CBS News) ― An economy already reeling from the sub-prime mortgage mess could be in for a big hit from another ... The swaps are a form of insurance, Wallace observes, with "big players - banks, pension and hedge funds - engaging in a high ...
    2008-02-22 04:11:00
  • M.D.C. Holdings' Presentation at The Wachovia 2008 Homebuilding ...

    Forbes - The Company also provides mortgage financing, insurance and title services, primarily for MDC homebuyers, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency and American Home Title and Escrow ...
    2008-02-20 07:26:00
  • Scottish Re Announces New Strategic Focus

    Forbes - The continuing deterioration in the market for sub-prime and Alt-A residential mortgage-backed securities and the ... be no assurance that any of these key strategies will be successful and each of them may be subject to review by insurance ...
    2008-02-22 04:54:00
  • Lansforsakringar AB: Lansforsakringar Alliance, Year-End Report 2007:

    MSN MoneyCentral - The Swedish Quality Index for 2007 revealed that Lansforsakringar had Sweden's most satisfied private bank customers, mortgage customers, medical insurance customers and car insurance customers.
    2008-02-22 02:16:00
  • TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Banking and insurance highlights to 09:15 GMT

    CNN Money - BZYGF) to 'neutral' from 'outperform' but upgrading Amlin PLC to 'outperform' from 'neutral' and Brit Insurance Holdings PLC to 'neutral' from 'underperform', traders said. 2008-02-22 08:59:03 Nottingham Building Society FY mortgage lending at record ...
    2008-02-22 01:26:00
  • Aviva Beats Prudential as U.K. Market Turns Tables on Revenue

    Bloomberg - The chief challenge facing Aviva is the slow-growing U.K. insurance market. Legal & General Group Plc , Britain's No. 3 insurer, said the deteriorating real estate market will hurt sales of mortgage-related insurance products, while proposed changes ...
    2008-02-22 04:39:00
  • UPDATE 1-Japan's Aioi Insurance headed for loss on subprime

    Reuters - TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Aioi Insurance Co (8761.T: Quote , Profile , Research ), Japan's fourth-largest non-life insurer, said ... have also been hit hard by losses on investments tied to the crumbling U.S. subprime mortgage market, but Aioi is the first ...
    2008-02-22 01:40:00
  • As saving methods vary, banks will follow: expert (JoongAng Daily)

    The era in which banks survive by making deposit-backed loans is over, Lee Hun-jai, a former deputy prime minister, said Thursday. Lee¡¯s comments came during a lecture to bank officials at Woori Bank headquarters in Seoul¡¯s Jung District.
    2008-02-22 05:06:47
  • Moss Not Designated Franchise Player By Pats (WCVB Boston)

    The New England Patriots did not designate Randy Moss as a franchise player Thursday, but there was no word from the team on whether they had reached a contract agreement with the wide receiver or are allowing him to become a free agent.
    2008-02-22 05:07:09
  • 30 Vehicles Involved In Gaithersburg Pileup (NBC4 Washington, D.C.)

    There are about 30 vehicles involved in a pileup crash in Gaithersburg.
    2008-02-22 05:22:41
  • Scottish Re Announces New Strategic Focus (Centre Daily Times)

    Scottish Re Group Limited (NYSE:SCT), or the "Company," announces that the Board of Directors has determined to alter the Company's strategic focus. The change in strategy is a direct response to prevailing market conditions and other business challenges including:
    2008-02-22 05:25:27
  • Mortgage Rates Jump To 7-Week High (WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley)

    Freddie Mac says the average for 30-year fixed rate mortgages rose to the highest level in weeks.
    2008-02-22 05:30:25
  • Most People Not Sure Of Heart Attack Signs (NBC 10 Philadelphia)

    People know massive chest pain can mean a heart attack but are not aware of the more subtle symptoms.
    2008-02-22 05:34:51