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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

• New Missouri Telecommunications Deregulation Bill May Decrease Consumer Taxes and Usage Fees

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Saint Louis Front Page 

  Two Out of Three Consumers Say Mortgages and HELOCs Harder to Obtain ST. LOUIS, MO, , July 13, 2008 - The credit crunch is impacting not only consumers' ability to get credit, and how they use it, but also -- ...

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  Related Topix: St. Louis, MO Metro, Small Business, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Military families receive assistance with new bill

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Springfield News Leader 

  Jefferson City -- Gov. Matt Blunt signed bills Wednesday to help military children and spouses transition among schools, expand a tax incentive program for certain businesses and create the specific crime of ...

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  Related Topix: Jefferson City, MO, Raymore, MO, Belton, MO, Warrensburg, MO, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Housing Market Slows

  Jun 10, 2008 | via KOMU-TV Columbia 

  The current real estate market is feeling a pinch and the sale of homes is still declining.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Jefferson City, MO

• Mortgage fraud could become a specific crime

  May 2, 2008 | via Springfield News Leader 

  Jefferson City -- Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to legislation that creates the specific crime of mortgage fraud.

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  Related Topix: Jefferson City, MO, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Lawmakers pass bill adding penalties for mortgage fraud

  May 1, 2008 | via Kansas City Star 

  Missouri lawmakers have approved the creation of a specific crime of mortgage fraud.The bill cleared the House on Thursday and now goes to the governor.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Jefferson City, MO

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 

  User Sign In Sign in now to: Personalize the content, colors, and layout of your page Choose news headlines, stock quotes, and the weather in your neighborhood Display all the links and information you need in ...

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

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  2 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate

• Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

  2 min ago | via The Flint Journal 

  Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker

  3 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Gloomy day for U.S. markets

  3 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Home Selling, Stamford, CT, New Haven Metro

• Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal

  3 min ago | via NewsChannel 8 

  A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clinton, MD, University of the District of Columbia