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  • Bankruptcy for £100 to help poorest (The Herald)

    Scotland's poorest and most vulnerable debtors were yesterday offered their cheapest escape from creditors. The Scottish Government said it would allow so-called "Ninas" - people with no income and no assets - to declare themselves bankrupt for a fee of just £100.
    2008-01-01 04:15:30
  • Hang Seng Ready To Resume Its Climb []

    RTT News - Earlier in the day, November existing home sales showed an unexpected increase, but the MICA reported that mortgage defaults jumped 35 percent year over year in ... The deal will raise ICBC's stake in the Hong Kong lender to 71.21 percent from 62.98 ...
    2008-01-01 02:38:00
  • Happy New Year ... We Hope

    Forbes - In the mortgage sector, the largest U.S. home lender, Countrywide Financial (nyse: CFC - news - people ), was hammered by the subprime meltdown, losing nearly 80% of its market value. Meanwhile, big caps outpaced small caps, as the ...
    2007-12-31 03:08:00
  • House prices up 16 per cent

    This is Hertfordshire - ... St Albans have grown 16 per cent in the last year, according to new survey by mortgage lender Halifax/HBOS. According to the Halifax, which unlike its rival Nationwide publishes figures for every town and city and Britain, the average price of a home ...
    2008-01-01 12:29:00
  • Home sales hit 13-year low

    Palm Beach Post - It is the prediction of every home builder, mortgage lender and banking analyst that 2008 will be one of the flattest years, if not the worst year, for real estate in this country." Nationally, sales of previously owned homes inched up in November ...
    2008-01-01 05:34:00
  • Lenders face rate hike pressure

    News.com.au - ... to stop increasing interest rates on home loans and credit cards, after a rush of rises to protect their multi-billion-dollar profits. ... finance markets following the sub-prime mortgage ...
    2008-01-01 02:59:00
  • U.S. existing home sales edge higher

    Globe and Mail - In fact, new home prices plummeting while existing homes rise is not really ... and with the credit card fiasco fast approaching, (if you can't pay your mortgage ... bailout" for these folks would be to let them hand the keys back to the lender and ...
    2008-01-01 02:09:00
  • House prices up 16 per cent (St Albans Observer)

    PROPERTY prices in St Albans have grown 16 per cent in the last year, according to new survey by mortgage lender Halifax/HBOS. According to the Halifax, which unlike its rival Nationwide publishes figures for every town and city and Britain, the average price of a home in the district is £359,595.
    2008-01-01 09:58:05
  • Blog Posts related to DRM

    Electronic Frontier Foundations - ... protected content into file-sharing channels, is now so common that it barely rates ... more about giving music fans a reason to come in from the P2P/iPod swapping/CD ... Public Knowledge, EFF, and other public interest groups sent a letter to the FCC ...
    2007-12-21 03:55:00
  • Radio & TV Talk

    AccessAtlanta - All the entries posted in September. Watch for a major change Monday morning at 6 a.m.: WTBS-TV will no longer simulcast the national TBS feed. Instead, it will become Atlanta-only Peacthree TV with its own schedule packed with sitcoms, movies and ...
    2007-12-29 03:53:00
  • 20 Compelling Calgarians

    Calgary Herald - Abdi took out a second mortgage to keep the 1st Avenue N.E. business afloat. Nearly a ... Half of the current 14 locations are franchises owned by like-minded people who are ... Canada has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the world. Keeping ...
    2008-01-01 01:26:00
  • Home sales rise slightly

    Akron Beacon Journal - At the current sales pace it would take 10.3 months to exhaust that overhang. ''Inventory is still high and further ... A dip in 30-year mortgage rates in November probably helped give nationwide existing-home sales the small boost last month, the ...
    2008-01-01 11:24:00
  • Wolfgang Munchau: Prepare for a downturn but not a disaster

    Financial Times - ... with the real economy and with other parts of the financial market – the mortgage ... the innate strength of the US economy that it has produced positive growth rates ... The biggest current risk to China, for example, would be an implosion of overvalued ...
    2008-01-01 05:05:00
  • Defaults on insured mortgages at record high

    Boston Globe - ... level on record, reflecting the inability of a growing number of homeowners to keep current on their loan payments. Data released Monday by the Mortgage ... Even though you're seeing an increase in the default rates, you're also seeing an increase ...
    2007-12-31 09:45:00
  • Caution Called For KOSPI []

    RTT News - ... home sales showed an unexpected increase, but the MICA reported that mortgage ... The index measuring manufacturers' current business sentiment stood at 84 down from ... Rising raw material costs, slumping private spending and high exchange rates are ...
    2008-01-01 01:33:00