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  • Toll Brothers Reports Preliminary 1st Qtr Totals for Home Building Revenues, Backlog and Contracts (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

    HORSHAM, Pa., Feb. 6, 2008 -- Toll Brothers, Inc. , the nation's leading builder of luxury homes, today reported first-quarter totals for home building revenues, contracts and backlog for the period ended January 31, 2008.
    2008-02-06 02:00:00
  • Stock slide deepens on pervasive economic gloom (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

    Stock market losses deepened in Asia on Wednesday as investors fretted about a global economic slowdown as stressed banks everywhere rein in lending.
    2008-02-06 02:02:00
  • Investors' Treasury rush may backfire (Seattle Times)

    Investors' raging demand for safe assets over the past six months may have created a bubble in the Treasury market — and some onlookers...
    2008-02-06 02:24:16
  • Stock slide deepens on pervasive economic gloom (Interactive Investor)

    Business Finance and city news online from Interactive Investor (www.iii.co.uk). Plus financial and currency market news and information 24/7. Stock prices, share prices, currency markets news and business finance headlines. Also news from AFX and Reuters.
    2008-02-06 02:31:03
  • Yen Rises to Two-Week High Against Euro After Stocks Decline (Bloomberg.com)

    Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The yen rose against the euro and the dollar as Asian stocks fell the most in two weeks, deterring investors from holding higher-yielding assets funded in Japan.
    2008-02-06 02:31:39
  • PEOPLE PROFILE: Gregory Blanding's book aims to free people from debt

    Lockport Union-Sun - Instead, he’s tried getting businesses — auto dealerships, mortgage companies and even the City of Lockport — to buy copies at $34.95 a piece to give to their customers. So far, it hasn’t worked. “I talked to a guy at a mortgage company ...
    2008-02-05 09:56:00
  • Morgan Stanley Plans First Islamic Bond Sale by `Multinational'

    Bloomberg - ... as early as this quarter with a sale that may spur other international companies to sell securities targeting Muslim investors. ``They have links to the Middle East and are looking to diversify sources of funding'' as U.S. mortgage losses ...
    2008-02-05 10:53:00
  • 3 local companies bilked homeowners, state says

    Columbus Dispatch - That caused "them to take out mortgage loans to pay for work that was never performed." All three companies' phone lines have been disconnected. According to complaints filed with the attorney general's office, several consumers paid thousands of ...
    2008-02-06 12:33:00
  • Flaherty Funding Gives Nod to PriceMyLoan

    Forbes - Founded in 2002, ILS provides web-based application service for the mortgage lending industry and software as a service (SaaS) to its clients to enhance productivity, reduce IT dependency, and accelerate time-to-value for mortgage companies ...
    2008-02-05 08:59:00
  • Compensation is key

    Winchester Star - ... local mortgage company, the commission he earned was hardly what he would consider adequate. "I was making a 33 percent cut," he recalled. "We offer a high payout," he said. "We just have a lot better compensation plan than other mortgage companies."
    2008-02-05 11:22:00
  • How to get out of debt - MSN Money UK

    How to get out of debtMSN Money UK, UK - 1 hour agoHanding over the keys to your home to the mortgage company, declaring yourself bankrupt or opting for an IVA (individual voluntary arrangement) may seem a ...
    2008-02-06 12:55:57
  • OC renters still see tough market - OCRegister

    OC renters still see tough marketOCRegister, CA - 1 hour agoThe smaller rental companies are more willing to use the (previous mortgage payment) formula. Q. It's been a while since landlords and apartment managers ...
    2008-02-06 01:05:59
  • Distressed borrowers get more aid when insolvent - Mortage 101

    Distressed borrowers get more aid when insolventMortage 101 - 1 hour agoThe new Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, signed into law at the tail end of December, is supposed to provide some relief to those who sell ...
    2008-02-06 01:06:41
  • US economic woes point to wider recession - Globe and Mail

    US economic woes point to wider recessionGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoBut the problem soon spread to the banks and brokers that invested heavily in mortgage securities. And more recently there has been evidence that US ...
    2008-02-06 01:11:58
  • Uncertainty in the aisles - Globe and Mail

    Uncertainty in the aislesGlobe and Mail, Canada - 1 hour agoThe company must be able to deal with such threats as global warming and potential subprime mortgage snags, he says. Meanwhile, Canadian Tire's financial ...
    2008-02-06 01:11:59