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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Housing prices in county still down

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Daily Democrat 

  Housing sales showed their third straight month of year-over-year gains in Yolo County, DataQuick Information Systems reported Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Yolo Metro, Yolo, CA, Yolo County, CA, Housing, Sacramento, CA

• Fires, foreclosures increasing risk of West Nile virus

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Inside Bay Area 

  Two plagues in California, fires and foreclosures, may be increasing the risk of another: West Nile virus.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Yolo County, CA, West Nile Virus, Health, California State University System, Sacramento, CA

• Market Conditions: Yolo County, California

  Monday Jul 7 | via Realty Times 

  Ken and Linda Pillard, market experts in Yolo County, California, say default notices have jumped from 197 to 488 since 2007.

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  Related Topix: Yolo County, CA, Housing, Woodland, CA, Esparto, CA, Winters, CA

• Changing, challenging times for another county budget

  Jun 17, 2008 | via The Daily Democrat 

  The only thing predictable about local government budgets is their unpredictability.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Yolo County, CA

• Draconian cutbacks face Yolo government

  Jun 7, 2008 | via The Daily Democrat 

  Yolo County officials released their 2008-09 recommended budget Friday, which included layoffs, hiring freezes and other hard-line cost-saving elements to keep even during the lean years predicted to come. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Yolo, CA, Sacramento Metro, Yolo Metro, Home, Mortgage, Yolo County, CA

Regional Headlines

• Report: Grand jury investigating subprime lenders

  1 hr ago | via The Record 

  A federal grand jury reportedly is investigating the nation's largest subprime mortgage lenders, Countrywide Financial Corp., New Century Financial Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, California

• Don't Let Them Slash Your Credit-Card Limits

  3 hrs ago | via WTVF Nashville 

  As big banks such as Wachovia, Citigroup and Bank of America continue to post multimillion-dollar writedowns to cover mortgage loan losses and other bad investments, credit-card holders are increasingly getting ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, California

• Resets begin peaking on subprime loans

  4 hrs ago | via Ledger Dispatch 

  The number of homeowners facing an increase in their subprime adjustable-rate mortgage payments will peak this summer, testing the efforts of lenders and others to keep those people out of foreclosure and ...

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  Related Topix: California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Subprime Today: National City posts record loss

  8 hrs ago | via MarketWatch 

  Each morning, Subprime Today provides a summary of MarketWatch's financial coverage as well as stories from other news outlets, providing links to those original articles.

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  Related Topix: National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, MarketWatch, Startups, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Focus on foreclosures

  10 hrs ago | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Help may be on the way for homeowners, banks and communities hit hard by the mortgage crisis after the House of Representatives approved a relief package on Wednesday. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Consortium of Colleges, California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  2 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Where politicians and bankers see vexing liabilities in defaulted mortgages and foreclosures, Robert Lee sees opportunities as he picks up the pieces of the housing bust.

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  Related Topix: Huntington Beach, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Closing Market ... Dow "283.10 ... S&P "29.65 ... Nasdaq "45.77

  4 min ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower today after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Housing, Home Selling, Real Estate

• Stocks Tumble After Sales of Existing Homes Fall; Dow Down 283 Points

  4 min ago | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 points.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, The National, Entertainment, Television, Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling

• Housing Market Legislation Update

  4 min ago | via Business Law Prof Blog 

  On Wednesday, President Bush dropped his opposition to the current housing market legislation despite his objections to a $3.9 billion provision.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• US House to help homeowners

  6 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  AIDING MORTGAGE GIANTS: The House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will provide liquidity to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with some denying it is a bailout AP, WASHINGTON Friday, Jul 25, 2008, Page 7 ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance