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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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Regional Headlines

• How they voted: Kansas roll call on housing bill

  19 hrs ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  How the Kansas delegation voted in the 272-152 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from ...

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• AP Top Kansas News at 3:58 a.m. CDT Tuesday, ...

  Tuesday | via Hays Daily News 

  A year after a refinery oil spill into floodwaters blanketed a third of this southeast Kansas town, little remains in the area that was damaged.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Coffeyville, KS, Kansas, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Pat Roberts, Todd Tiahrt, US House of Representatives

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

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• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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National Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  3 min ago | via Butler Eagle 

  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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• Report: Foreclosure sales up in Maricopa County

  4 min ago | via KTAR / Local / Stories 

  A new report shows that more than 40 percent of Maricopa County home sales in June were foreclosures.

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• Fauquier Foreclosure Sales

  4 min ago | via Times Community Newspapers - Fauquier County 

  I let you all know, not long ago that the Fauquier numbers for June looked pretty good.

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• ASB follows Bollard's lead, cuts fixed rate - Cullen approves

  4 min ago | via NZ Herald 

  ASB has moved quickly to cut its two year fixed home lending rate, after Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard cut the Official Cash Rate to 8 per cent from 8.25 per cent.

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• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  5 min ago | via NY Daily News 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's ...

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