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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

• Local banks keep watchful eye on mortgage giants

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Citizensvoice.com 

  While they aren't too worried, local bank officials are keeping a watchful eye on the troubled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac organizations.

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  Related Topix: Dunmore, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Fidelity buying 2.4% of its stock

  Jun 7, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  Fidelity D&D Bancorp is in the market for its own stock. With stocks of small banks battered for the misdeeds of bigger competitors, the Dunmore-based bank is buying back its own shares and taking them off the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Dunmore, PA, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lackawanna County sale aims to put properties back on tax rolls

  Jun 3, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  You may win a home with a market value of $106,350 at 1005 Oak St. in Taylor with an offer of just $3,175. At least, that is the starting bid on the property in a county judicial sale of three properties today ...

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Home Listing, Home, Taylor, PA, Mortgage, Carbondale, PA

• People on the move

  Jun 1, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  John A. Chalker, of Clarks Summit, earned the Certified Fraud Examiner designation.

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  Related Topix: Clarks Summit, PA, Dunmore, PA, Real Estate, Moscow, PA, Scranton, PA, Scranton Metro

• Documents link two county judges to project tied to juvie center owner

  May 29, 2008 | via Citizensvoice.com 

  Two Luzerne County judges who played key roles in closing the county's juvenile detention center in 2002 have financial interests in a Mountain Top real estate project linked to Robert J. Powell, an investor ...

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  Related Topix: Mountain Top, PA, Dunmore, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Senators find Pittsburgh casino is in dire shape

  Friday | via Luminary 

  State senators asking questions Thursday about the rescue of a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project by other investors found the situation more complicated and dire than they originally thought. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Regional economy shows improvement

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Home Listing, Home

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Housing rescue passes

  4 min ago | via Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, Virginia 

  The candidates for the 5th District House seat in the November election differ on the merits of the housing legislation passed by Congress last week.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on shares

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  With many banks still reporting massive writedowns and even quarterly losses from bad mortgage investments, it certainly seems like an odd time for financial stocks to rally.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Mortgage firm rescue bill awaits Bush's OK

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Financing completed for Pa. shopping center

  3 hrs ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has completed a $54 million financing of Paxton Towne Centre in Harrisburg, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Local communities sit half-built, fully troubled

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Michael and Judith Van Dress have a lot of privacy and not a lot of competition when they use the brand-new fitness center at their condominium in Concordia.

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  Related Topix: Cape Coral, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL, Naples Metro