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  • Lenders fighting mortgage rewrite (MSNBC)

    The nation's largest lending institutions are lobbying hard to block a proposal in Congress that would give bankruptcy judges greater latitude to rewrite mortgages held by financially strapped homeowners.
    2008-02-22 06:26:30

  • FileVault vulnerable to RAM hack (MacNN)

    Apple's FileVault is among the encryption technologies that may expose its secrets in RAM, suggests a paper produced at Princeton University. Through several experiments, computer scientists with Princeton discovered that many computers leave encryption data in RAM during two vulnerable states: powering down, and rebooting. While accessing data ...
    2008-02-22 07:16:39

  • Northern Rock nationalised (Reuters.co.uk)

    LONDON (Reuters) - Parliament passed legislation on Thursday allowing the government to nationalise Northern Rock, five months after the bank became a high-profile casualty of the global credit crunch.
    2008-02-22 07:53:46

  • Mortgage Web Site Has Admirable Goals, But Will It Save You Money? (Washington Post)

    I have been spending time recently kicking the tires of a new Web site, http://www.mortgagegrader.com, which has excellent credentials.
    2008-02-22 04:40:27

  • Not Your Ordinary Swap Meet (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    An obscure pressure point in the credit squeeze popped up this week when a boutique investment bank in Houston held a “public auction” for dozens of the most arcane products in the financial world.
    2008-02-22 05:39:19

  • Philippine shares turn flat in mid-trade on oil price concerns

    Forbes - ... as investors balanced concerns about high oil prices with hopes of more rate cuts ... The minutes raised hopes that the Fed will continue cutting interest rates. ... Mall operator SM Prime Holdings Inc gained 20 centavos or 2.2 percent to 9.10 pesos
    2008-02-19 03:56:00

  • Paragon Shipping Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual 2007 Results

    MSN MoneyCentral - ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 20, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Paragon Shipping Inc. (Nasdaq: ... over the remaining period of the time charter as an increase to time charter revenue, and unrealized loss from interest rate swaps
    2008-02-20 02:14:00

  • First-time buyers will realize value of owning home

    El Paso Times - Interest rates on home loans did go down but not at the same rate as prime, and this is important to understand. However, many commercial loans figured on a few points above prime benefited.
    2008-02-20 11:04:00

  • Thai Economy Probably Grew at Fastest Pace in Six Quarters

    Bloomberg - Prime Minister Samak said on Feb. 18 the government will use monetary policy to support economic growth. ``They are favorable to cutting the interest rate,'' said Andrew Freris , chief economist for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong. ``They ...
    2008-02-21 02:56:00

  • Discover Gets a Boost From an Old Friend

    Street.Com - ... estimate this year, "thanks to more prudent underwriting [lower credit losses], more leverage in the net interest margin to Fed rate ... American Express "may be in for further problems as prime mortgage troubles spread through its card portfolio, and ...
    2008-02-22 10:23:00

  • Shareholder meeting and proposed acquisitions

    Forbes - All amounts advanced to Plaintree shall be payable on demand and bear interest at a rate per annum equal to 2% above the prime lending rate of the Company's banker as from time to time determined.
    2008-02-21 10:45:00

  • Next Mega-Credit Problem Looming?

    CBS News - ... reeling from the sub-prime mortgage mess could be in for a big hit from another type of financial instrument, experts warn. They say possible problems in the gargantuan "credit default swap" market could cause credit-tightening and interest rate ...
    2008-02-21 07:54:00

  • Sharper Image bankruptcy loans approved

    Boston Globe - Interest on the Chapter 11 loans will run as high as Wells Fargo's prime rate plus 4.5 percent, court documents say. Robert Conway, the restructuring executive recently hired as Sharper Image's chief executive, has said the company will attempt to ...
    2008-02-21 01:30:00

  • Huge rise in home repossession

    Western Telegraph - One of the big issues for us has been right-to-buy clients who have sub-prime ... These repossession orders indicate the impact of higher interest rates, fuel prices ... or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate ...
    2008-02-22 03:38:00

  • Gilts Fall in Week as Traders Pare Rate-Cut Bets, Stocks Rise

    Bloomberg - The day before, Prime Minister Gordon Brown 's government announced it will take over mortgage lender Northern Rock Plc ... The implied yield on the December interest-rate futures contract rose 14 basis points this past week to 4.76 percent, the biggest ...
    2008-02-22 04:54:00

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