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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

• WaMu May Need to Hit the ATM Again

  Apr 26, 2008 | via TheStreet.com 

  The Seattle thrift's shares rallied almost 10% Wednesday, after it reassured investors that it would not have to raise capital after reporting a loss of $3.3 billion, or $6.58 a share, Tuesday after the bell.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage

• Tough times multiply pleas for help

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Palm Beach Post 

  For some, their hours at work have been cut in half. Others face mortgage payments that have ballooned.

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  Related Topix: St Lucie County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Indian River County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, St. Lucie, FL, Port St. Lucie, FL

• Countrywide Could Bring BofA Misery

  Apr 26, 2008 | via TheStreet.com 

  The all-stock deal, originally worth $4 billion when it was struck in January, makes Bank of America the nation's leading mortgage originator and servicer, while protecting its $2 billion preferred stock ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Banking, Bank of America, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Trash cans are getting lighter as economy slides

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Palm Beach Post 

  You can spot the financial hardships facing many Florida families by looking inside their trash cans.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Home, Mortgage, St. Lucie, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, St Lucie County, FL

• Nothing sacred as families slash

  Jun 14, 2008 | via Palm Beach Post 

  Doreen Dennett and her family love the little pleasures in life: trips to Orlando, gym memberships, sporting events shared with friends and family.

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  Related Topix: St Lucie County, FL, Boynton Beach, FL, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  38 min ago | via The Miami Herald 

  With the local economy on the ropes and the number of borrowers behind on their mortgages rising, South Florida median home prices and sales continued sliding last month, falling an average 20.5 percent in ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, University of Miami, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Mortgages

  1 hr ago | via Daily Business Review 

  That's one of the explanations in a 40-page response to a Miami Herald investigation, which found that more than 10,000 people with criminal records were permitted to work in Florida's mortgage industry between ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry

  1 hr ago | via Tampa Bay Online 

  The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go

  3 hrs ago | via El Sentinel 

  Next Tuesday is bound to be a bloodletting when the Florida Cabinet meets to decide the fate of embattled Office of Financial Regulation chief Don Saxon . 1 comment

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Florida Government

• FAR: South Florida home sales continue decline

  Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Year-over-year single-family home sales and prices declined again in June, across South Florida and the state, a Florida Association of Realtors report showed.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, West Palm Beach, FL, Florida, Miami Metro, Fort Myers, FL, Cape Coral, FL

National Headlines

• Editorial: Cloudy prospects

  2 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Oil prices have dipped a good 15 per cent in the last few days, and suddenly the forecasts on oil prices talk of a dip, not a further rise in prices.

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

• Housing, jobs send stocks skidding

  2 min ago | via SI.com 

  Renewed fears about the battered housing market and rising unemployment sent stocks into a tailspin Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• On the Market: Chad Rogers's Beverly Hills Listing

  2 min ago | via CurbedLA 

  Last week, everyone met Chad Rogers , one of the real estate agents behind the forthcoming "Million Dollar Listings," Bravo's new television show about three "hot" Los Angeles real estate agents.

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  Related Topix: Beverly Hills, CA, Real Estate, Los Angeles, CA, Million Dollar Listing, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television

• PricewaterhouseCoopers: Credit and mortgage crisis cause companies to delay public offerings

  2 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday reported that the number of initial public offerings for the first half of the year has fallen to a four-year low because of turbulent market conditions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Accounting, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Visa Inc., Financial Markets

• Credit Suisse profit plunges 62%, less than analysts said

  4 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  Credit Suisse has been able to cut risky positions a bit faster than probably the average in the sector.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Credit Suisse Group, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag