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  • Protesting lender practices

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Countrywide, the nation's largest mortgage lender, has become a target for complaints about the risky subprime loans widely used ... Countrywide home loans”; “Keeping my home should not cost me an arm and a leg”; and “Would you give your mom a ...
    2007-11-21 11:55:00
  • Northern Rock May Lose $623 Million on SIVs, CDOs, Report Says

    Bloomberg - Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Rock Plc, the U.K. mortgage lender bailed out by the Bank of England, may face losses of 302 ... buy higher-yielding securities, have been forced to sell about $75 billion of assets since July after record U.S. home ...
    2007-11-22 07:54:00
  • Lawmakers take step to avert state mortgage crisis

    Lowell Sun - ... window to pay off existing debt after default on a loan before the bank or lender can foreclose on their home. "It requires irresponsible lenders to change their practices, and it also requires borrowers to educate themselves on their mortgage ...
    2007-11-22 08:37:00
  • British leaders at a loss to explain missing data

    Los Angeles Times - You are here: LAT Home > World News ... The new crisis follows the Brown government's controversial bailout of the nation's fifth-largest mortgage lender, Northern Rock ...
    2007-11-21 10:29:00
  • German shares up slightly as Asian market rebound offsets Wall Street ...

    CNBC - Frenow said that the local market had to work off pressure on the financial sector due to negative news this week on home mortgage lender Freddie Mac. Banks were also dragged lower by a weak performance by their US peers overnight and after the ...
    2007-11-22 04:05:00
  • Canadian Banks May Report First Earnings Decline in Five Years

    Bloomberg - ... bank, said Nov. 13 that it will take a C$360 million pretax writedown in the fourth quarter for holdings of U.S. mortgage ... Results from the Toronto-based lender are scheduled to be released Dec. 6. National Bank of Canada, the country ...
    2007-11-22 12:38:00
  • Top home lender to leapfrog RBA rates

    News.com.au - Australia's biggest home lender said a similar move by all major banks was "inevitable" but declined to forecast the timing and size of its own rate rise. Local banks have been absorbing higher funding costs since the US subprime mortgage meltdown ...
    2007-11-22 05:31:00
  • UK lender pulls sub-prime range

    BBC Business - Kensington Mortgages is pulling out of the sub-prime mortgage market because of current market conditions. The specialist lender will withdraw its entire ... pioneer in the sector, had already acted in September by cutting the proportion of a home ...
    2007-11-22 07:33:00
  • GMAC eyes mortgage firm

    Detroit Free Press - ... the home-loan market. GMAC would not name the mortgage firm being considered for purchase to combine with ResCap, but said in Wednesday's release that it had recently entered a second round of nonbinding interest for the firm. British mortgage lender ...
    2007-11-22 06:00:00
  • German shares slightly higher in afternoon trade, Bayer leads gainers

    Forbes - Frenow said that the local market had to work off pressure on the financial sector due to negative news this week on home mortgage lender Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ). Banks were also dragged lower by a weak performance ...
    2007-11-22 06:43:00
  • Money talk: mortgage exit fees

    Daily Telegraph - These are charged by your lender when you pay off your mortgage or switch to another home loan. Banks are entitled to levy the charges, but had been raising the fees after customers signed up for their mortgages. Millions of borrowers leaving their ...
    2007-11-21 11:12:00
  • No ifs or buts, mortgage rates will rise

    News.com.au - AUSTRALIA'S biggest home lender has confirmed that mortgage rates will rise whether or not the Reserve Bank moves again on official interest rates. The Commonwealth Bank's head of retail products Michael Cant yesterday told banking analysts that ...
    2007-11-22 06:21:00
  • US Home Lender Group Down Sharply (Australasian Investment Review via Yahoo!7 Finance)

    Some folk might be wondering why so much attention is being paid to the subprime mortgage mess in the US: after all it's there and we are here in Australia, linked to booming China and away from the damage. As we have seen that's a fallacy: over $1 billion in losses have been wracked up for local investors in the subprime mess, local interest rates have risen, takeovers and buyouts have failed, ...
    2007-11-21 01:59:00
  • GMAC eyes international lender said to be Northern Rock (Market Watch)

    LONDON (MarketWatch) -- GMAC, the former financing unit of General Motors, says it has a novel idea to recover from the credit crunch -- put its struggling Residential Capital home-lending unit of the U.S. together with an international lender that's believed to be the U.K.'s Northern Rock.
    2007-11-22 04:18:36
  • Mortgage rate rise tipped (Herald Sun)

    AUSTRALIA'S biggest home lender has confirmed that mortgage rates will rise whether or not the Reserve Bank moves again on official interest rates.
    2007-11-22 05:00:00