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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

Regional Headlines

• Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M heist

  47 min ago | via The Times West Virginian 

  A man who stole about $8 million from an armored car company where he worked was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

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• Cain Watch: Cain Campaign Flags as Income Inequality Rises

  2 hrs ago | via The Democratic Party 

  Yesterday the McCain campaign hit a rough patch as they tried to escape the fallout over McCain's continued gaffes on foreign policy and ongoing coverage of his promise of four more years of failed Bush-McCain ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ohio

• Home sales fall in June, but Ohio bucks national slide

  4 hrs ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Home sales in the Buckeye State rose from May to June, marking their fifth consecutive month of growth even as national home sales slid.

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  Related Topix: Cuyahoga County, OH, Housing, Ohio, Ohio Government, Home, Home Selling

• Business this week

  9 hrs ago | via The Economist 

  Roche , a Swiss pharmaceutical company, made an offer of $44 billion for the 45% of shares it does not already own in Genentech , a Californian firm.

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• Existing home sales fall 2.6 percent in June

  14 hrs ago | via ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com 

  WASHINGTON - Sales of existing homes fell more sharply than expected in June as the housing industry continued to be bruised by the worst slump in more than two decades.

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

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  7 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

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

  8 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

  9 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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• US House to help homeowners

  10 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