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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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

Local Headlines

• Area home sales continue to be sluggish

  4 hrs ago | via STLtoday 

  The housing slump continued in most counties in the St. Louis region last month.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Readers Sound Off! on Pacific's water, Medicare and Chrysler

  Tuesday | via Tri-County Journal 

  Blame Chrysler Your revolution is dead, and in these times of high gas prices and foreclosures, people need the most for their money.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, St Louis County, MO, Opinion

• Copper theft is taking a toll on neighborhoods

  Apr 24, 2008 | via STLtoday 

  Last month, Michael Smith stopped by a house he's rehabbing in the Benton Park West neighborhood of south St.

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  Related Topix: Flordell Hills, MO, Foreclosures, St. Louis, MO, St Louis County, MO

• Payback: Laura Smith blew the whistle on a county sheriff's...

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Riverfront Times 

  With her straight brown hair and designer shades, Laura Smith looks more like a member of the Junior League than a court-appointed strongman.

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  Related Topix: Kirkwood, MO, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, St Louis County, MO

• The 411 on foreclosures

  Saturday Jun 28 | via STLtoday 

  After two hours on a podium Saturday, listening to lots of talk about foreclosures, Karen Wallensak walked to the microphone and ordered the audience to stand up.

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  Related Topix: Fenton, MO, Foreclosures, St Louis County, MO, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat

Regional Headlines

• Economy not looking so bad, as viewed from the farm

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  The U.S. housing crisis looks pretty distant when viewed from the cornfields of middle America, although land values pushed up by record commodity prices also evoke past booms that ended in bust.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  Friday Jul 18 | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

• Belgian brewer InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B

  Monday Jul 14 | via Earthlink 

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster

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

  3 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