Group: Bad Credit Threatening US Economy (Northwest Florida Daily News)
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Group: Bad Credit Threatening US Economy (Northwest Florida Daily News)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bad credit has supplanted terrorism as the gravest immediate risk threatening the economy, a key national research group reported Monday.
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Growing mortgage crisis spreads to jumbo loans (Seattle Times)
The evening before their home purchase was to close, Gary Becker and his wife, Amy Dacus, learned their mortgage to buy a Woodinville home...
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Real estate: Heart & home (Florida Today)
Mercedes Homes, its employees and subcontractors work to help get local heart-lung transplant recipient through his recovery.
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Accredited Home, HSBC Close Offices as Crisis Spreads (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The rising cost of credit took its toll on Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co., HSBC Holdings Plc and H&R Block Inc. as the subprime mortgage fallout spreads through the economy.
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Foreclosure 'rescue' deals shackle homeowners (Miami Herald)
For Kayhlene Gainer, it started two years ago, with a knock on the door on a Sunday spring afternoon. The two women who stopped by her Coconut Creek home knew the 55-year-old widow was behind on her mortgage payments and facing foreclosure.
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Wachovia defends mortgage unit (The Salt Lake Tribune)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wall Street is still not convinced that Wachovia Corp.'s $24 billion purchase last year of one of the country's largest mortgage lenders was a smart bet.
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Wachovia Upbeat On Takeover Of Mortgage Lender (Hartford Courant)
Wall Street is still not convinced that Wachovia Corp.'s $24 billion purchase last year of one of the country's largest mortgage lenders was a smart bet. But bank executives say the doubters are wrong and insist that the takeover is working out just fine.
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Credit Markets (Washington Post)
Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein was online Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss whether the credit markets are a better way to finance businesses and households than old-fashioned banks.
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Is Refinancing the Best Option? (Washington Post)
Q: DEAR BOB: I am a 51-year-old widow of eight years with three children, 9, 11 and 15. I earn about $3,000 a month, and my children receive $2,100 in Social Security benefits. I have owned my home for six years and have a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage at 5.375 percent. My monthly payment is $1,279, including $67 in private mortgage insurance and $217 for escrowed property taxes and insurance.
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Mortgage crisis widens at Accredited, HSBC, Lehman (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Fallout from the U.S. mortgage and credit crisis spread on Wednesday as Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co, HSBC Holdings Plc and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc announced job cuts and concern mounted about the longer-term impact on the economy.
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Group: Bad Credit Threatening US Economy (Northwest Florida Daily News)
Why is this important? The lending industry is moving toward "risk-based" pricing. In plain English, this means that the higher one's credit scores, the less paper they will have to provide to prove that they are creditworthy AND the interest rate and/or fees a borrower pays will be based on the level of their scores.
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