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• Surveys say 401(k) habits vary by race

  CNN Money - Racial discrimination by mortgage lenders may have heightened blacks' interest in owning a home, she said. Blacks' lack of participation in retirement plans can put employers and the financial services industry on the defensive, said Lisa Toppin ...
  2007-10-11 10:20:00

• U.S. 30-year mortgage rates rise-Freddie Mac

  Reuters - Fees and points charged on one-year ARM mortgages also fell to 0.6 percent from 0.7 percent a week ago. Freddie Mac is a mortgage finance company chartered by Congress that buys mortgages from lenders and packages them into securities to sell to ...
  2007-10-11 11:10:00

• Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Rebound on Better Job News

  Forbes - NEW YORK, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mortgage rates increased this week, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 6.5 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year ...
  2007-10-11 09:01:00

• CONTINUED: Now considering bankruptcy

  MSNBC - Danielle Donovan, a broker at Clarion Mortgage who has been in the industry for 27 years, said attitudes changed around 2000 when mortgage lenders began offering "subprime" loans to borrowers with less-than-stellar credit as home prices were soaring ...
  2007-10-11 08:32:00

• Kroszner says Fed to propose new sub-prime lending rules by end of ...

  CNBC - WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - The Federal Reserve will propose new lending regulations by the end of this year, "that would apply to sub-prime loans offered by all mortgage lenders," said Fed Governor Randall Kroszner. The rules would address ...
  2007-10-11 08:11:00

• Bridgelock Capital Selects PCLender's Integrated Mortgage Document Imaging and Management Module (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

  HONOLULU----PCLender.com, a web based software and services solutions provider to mid-sized mortgage bankers, has added integrated imaging and document management to its InHouse Mortgage Enterprise Lending System, providing lenders new levels of efficiency for loan processing, underwriting, investor delivery, and file archiving.
  2007-10-11 06:00:00

• Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Rebound on Better Job News (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

  Mortgage rates increased this week, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 6.5 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.34 discount and origination points.
  2007-10-11 08:34:00

• Lenders back White House mortgage coalition (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced a new mortgage industry coalition on Wednesday aimed at helping homeowners avoid being trapped in a rising tide of foreclosures.
  2007-10-11 12:15:14

• Ohio Governor Calls On Lenders To Help Cut Foreclosures (WCMH Columbus)

  Mortgage lenders in Ohio, which has one of the nation's highest foreclosure rates, must try harder to restructure loan agreements with delinquent homeowners under a plan proposed Tuesday by Gov. Ted Strickland.
  2007-10-11 06:21:20

• Few lenders are willing to make mortgage modifications, survey says (Addict 3D)

  Mortgage lenders rarely help homeowners struggling with rapidly increasing adjustable mortgages, according to a survey of 33 California housing counseling agencies released on Wednesday.
  2007-10-10 11:14:37

• House prices fall at fastest rate in two years

  Reuters UK - LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell at their fastest pace in two years in the three months to September and the outlook for sales was its weakest in 4-1/2 years, as interest rate worries put people off investing in property. The Royal Institution of ...
  2007-10-11 07:21:00

• Fed cut rates to offset credit crunch: Kroszner

  CNBC - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve decided a half-percentage point interest rate cut was needed September 18 after initial steps failed to return U.S. financial markets to normal, Fed Governor Randall Kroszner said on Thursday. "At that time ...
  2007-10-11 09:30:00

• Interest rates threat as jobs boom

  News.com.au - THE booming economy has become a double-edged sword for Prime Minister John Howard, with fears the record low unemployment rate could spark an interest rate rise. The jobless rate fell to a new 33-year low of 4.2 per cent in September, figures ...
  2007-10-11 07:50:00

• US STOCKS-Futures rise on rate hopes; retailers eyed

  Reuters - Last: NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday, helped by expectations that economic reports and monthly retail sales figures would encourage further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. In earnings news, soft-drink ...
  2007-10-11 07:35:00

• Foreclosure rate dips, expected to stay high

  MSNBC - For one thing, another wave of interest rate ‘resets’ is expected hit over the next year, squeezing millions more borrowers’ budgets and putting their loans — and their homes — at risk. “I wouldn’t bet the farm on this being the peak ...
  2007-10-11 07:21:00

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