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  • The fight to save Savernake Hospital

    This is Wiltshire - Quite the reverse - requests to inform the public through the media about the use of the Minor Injuries Unit and which ... Nurses are not just nurses; they are people with families, mortgages and commitments. As the threat of closure looms larger ...
    2007-09-20 07:24:00
  • Bonds for ramp won't sell

    Dubuque Telegraph Herald - On Wednesday, it was revealed that there are two mortgages against a portion of the new casino site, which effectively killed ... There would be an opportunity for somebody to submit a petition for what's called a reverse referendum at the public hearing ...
    2007-09-20 07:39:00
  • Merv's swerve is no U-turn

    Guardian Unlimited - It's the reverse: banks can have limited cash at a high price. King's policy of tough love is intact. He is giving the ... would have had to make the same offer to Northern Rock's rivals, with the possibility that the Bank ended up holding mortgages ...
    2007-09-20 02:38:00
  • Bank of England defends action on money markets

    International Herald Tribune - FRANKFURT : Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of its decision to reverse ... would accept, saying it had to have the highest possible credit rating - triple-A - and could only derive from prime mortgages ...
    2007-09-20 07:53:00
  • Financial Freedom Launches Fixed Rate HECM Reverse Mortgage

    Earthtimes - Irvine, CA – [September 20, 2007] -- Financial Freedom, a subsidiary of IndyMac Bank F.S.B. (Indymac Bank®) and the nation’s largest originator of reverse mortgages, announced today the introduction of Financial Freedom’s HECM Fixed Rate ...
    2007-09-20 07:24:00
  • Bear Stearns profit plunges on credit turmoil

    Globe and Mail - Investment bank has the greatest exposure to mortgages in its group, making it vulnerable to subprime meltdown ... Read the ... The second type of conversation is fully moderated. In a fully moderated conversation, every comment is reviewed by a ...
    2007-09-20 07:17:00
  • Goldman profit surges

    CNBC - ... profit surged 79 percent, blowing away expectations of weak results, as the investment bank generated its second-highest ... Goldman's results defied market worries that trading and investing businesses were hammered by the meltdown in mortgages and ...
    2007-09-20 07:39:00
  • Affordable Housing Panel Seeks Voice in P&Z's Arena

    Darien News-Review - ... housing, the plan proposes that they would have to pay an as-yet-undecided amount of money to an affordable housing trust fund, which would be used to build affordable housing, preserve existing housing, and help residents to pay second mortgages. ...
    2007-09-20 06:34:00
  • Bear Stearns Net Drops Most in Decade on Credit Rout (Update4)

    Bloomberg - Bear Stearns, founded in 1923, was battered as U.S. foreclosures for subprime mortgages rose to a record in the second quarter. Hostile Environment About 30 percent of Bear Stearns's fixed-income revenue comes from mortgages and ...
    2007-09-20 08:29:00
  • Transcript: Bernanke on Mortgages, Foreclosures

    NPR News - Bernanke on Mortgages, Foreclosures NPR.org , September 20, 2007 · Testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ... The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) joined the federal agencies in the second statement. Often, loan workouts ...
    2007-09-20 08:22:00
  • Stocks Slip After Brokerage Earnings

    Chicago Tribune - And Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported a surprisingly large 79 percent rise in profit, saying it managed to hedge losses in subprime mortgages during the tumultuous third quarter. In August, stocks plunged and credit markets tightened up due largely ...
    2007-09-20 07:24:00
  • Bank of England chief blames banks for Northern Rock crisis

    CNBC - After the events of August, which essentially closed the markets in asset-backed securities, Northern Rock was then a company with a highly illiquid set of assets." including mortgages and market-backed securities. "Northern Rock tried to sell some of ...
    2007-09-20 05:58:00
  • Wall St flat on mixed earnings reports

    CNBC - Rounding out the week of closely watched earnings from Wall Street banks, Bear Stearns Co Inc's profit plunged 61 percent on bad bets on subprime mortgages and volatile fixed-income trading. But Goldman Sachs posted third-quarter ...
    2007-09-20 08:36:00
  • Treasuries Keep Falling After Rate Cut (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

    Treasurys closed sharply lower Wednesday as Wall Street stretched its interest rate-inspired rally to a second session. The Federal Reserve's decision Tuesday to slash both the federal funds rate and the discount rate by a half percentage point to 4.75 percent ignited a massive rally in U.S. stocks and a move away from lower-risk government bonds.
    2007-09-20 04:14:24
  • RAIT Financial Trust Closes Second European Securitization (FinanzNachrichten)

    RAIT Financial Trust ( Nachrichten ) ("RAIT") (NYSE:RAS) announced the closing on September 13, 2007 of a EUR 900 million European real estate securitization transaction managed by a subsidiary of RAIT. RAIT purchased EUR 17.5 million of unrated notes in the securitization and will earn collateral management and origination fees.
    2007-09-20 06:19:46