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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

• Fuel crisis puts rural residents in rut

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  A year ago, Michael Harrell began working a second job - a 4 to 8 a.m. shift at Home Depot in Great Falls - just to pay for the gas needed to drive from his Sun River home to his full-time job in Great Falls.

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  Related Topix: Sun River, MT, Real Estate, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Denton, MT, Lewistown, MT

Regional Headlines

• Bankers survey shows support for mortgage bailout

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KPAX 

  Most rural bank CEOs surveyed in Montana and 10 other states support a federal bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the event of financial collapse.

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

• Mortgage reforms will save Canadians from U.S.-style woes

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Calgary Herald 

  By the upper reaches of the Missouri in Montana, runs an arm of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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

• Regulations needed in nation's lending industry

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Montana Department of Revenue Director Dave Bucks told a legislative panel last week Montana is dodging the national housing crisis.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho, The University of Findlay, Montana

• Revenue chief: State dodges housing crisis

  Friday Jul 11 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  HELENA - Wise mortgage decisions and a relatively strong economy have largely kept the state's housing market above national turmoil, the director of the Montana Department of Revenue said Thursday.

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• High-priced oil means it's time to relocate

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Billings Outpost 

  Bicycling around town, digging and planting and weeding our garden, not climbing into the car for four whole days, I didn't think once about the price of gasoline.

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  Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Montana, Mortgage, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  4 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

  5 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

  6 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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• Housing Market Legislation Update

  6 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

  8 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