Payments on time aids credit score
Sep 6, 2009 | via Hattiesburg American
Between annoyingly catchy jingles and flashing pop-up ads, it would be hard for a person to not think about their credit score. Comment?
Apr 30, 2009 | via WKRG-TV Mobile
Real estate brokers say home sales in the north Mississippi university town of Oxford are slowly perking up after a rough drop last year. Comment?
State budget very similar to family's
Monday Dec 14 | via Hattiesburg American
THERE ARE MORE ZEROES on $6 billion than on $60,000, but otherwise there's not a lot of difference between how Mississippi operates and how a typical family operates. Comment?
Barbour: Severstal repays $10M loan 4 years early
Tuesday Dec 8 | via Myrtle Beach Online
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday that the steel company Severstal North America Inc. Comment?
Peoples Financial Corporation Declares Semiannual Di...
Friday Dec 4 | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
The board of directors of Peoples Financial Corporation , parent of The Peoples Bank, declared a regular semiannual cash dividend of $.10 per common share, payable January 15, 2010, to stockholders of record January 8, 2010. Comment?
Real Estate Conference addresses challenges
Friday Dec 4 | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
The Mississippi Association of Realtors annual convention was back on the Coast this year for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. Comment?
Broker paying $25m to settle SEC charges
5 min ago | via Daily Times
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement of civil fraud charges with ICAP Securities USA, which it described as the US subsidiary of the world's largest broker of trades between banks, ICAP PLC of Britain. Comment?
OneWest rises from IndyMac's ashes
6 min ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune
It's been a year since a group of investors including billionaire George Soros and computer company founder Michael Dell agreed to buy IndyMac for what would be nearly $14 billion. Comment?
HUD sues ex-R.I. nursing home executive to recover m...
49 min ago | via Providence Journal
The federal government is seeking more than $12 million from former nursing home executive Antonio L. Giordano and his associates, claiming they enriched themselves by diverting millions of dollars from nursing homes as the homes slipped into debt, in violation of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Comment?
16 min ago | via Enquirer-Journal
I guess it's cold comfort to say this in a state with thousands of residents underwater on their mortgages, but by national standards North Carolina didn't experience much of a housing bubble during the past decade. Comment?
First-time homebuyers power sales jump
19 min ago | via Herald-Mail
Washington County's home-buying market came roaring back last month, rising to $20.48 million - nearly double sales of a year ago. Comment?