Mortgage and Financial News From 2008-6-11 Page 9
Previous Day: 2008-06-10
Return to the mortgage news archive home.
Page: 01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
-
Students, lock in low loan rates - Detroit Free Press
College students who rush from one thing to the next should relax the next few weeks when it comes to consolidating student loans. You'll want to consolidate July 1 or after to lock in low fixed rates. Given the credit crunch, you won't see an ...
2008-06-11 04:26:00 -
JGB futures hit 10-month low on rate jitters, stocks - Guardian Unlimited
TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond futures hit a 10-month low on Wednesday, hurt by gains in stocks and growing expectations that the U.S. and euro zone central banks will raise interest rates this year, paving the way for a ...
2008-06-11 12:30:00 -
Reuters Canada Business Summary (The Globe and Mail)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Office supplies company Staples has won its battle to buy Corporate Express after the Dutch firm agreed to a sweetened bid of 1.7 billion euros ($2.65 billion) and ended its own deal with Lyreco.
2008-06-11 04:47:51 -
Second lake-to-city line proposed (Salem News)
SALEM - Utilities Superintendent Don Weingart is proposing a second water main from the city reservoir on Gamble Road into the city. During Tuesday's Utilities Commission meeting, Weingart said the $2.5- to $3 million project would back up the current line that stretches cross country from the reservoir south of the city. The line would follow right of ways, Weingart said,
2008-06-11 04:48:39 -
Euro Rises as ECB's Stark Signals Single Rate Increase in July (Bloomberg.com)
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- The euro snapped a two-day decline against the dollar on growing speculation the European Central Bank will raise interest rates next month while the Federal Reserve leaves borrowing costs unchanged.
2008-06-11 04:49:51 -
Full stadiums and busy sofas underline the pull of India's all-singing Twenty20 (Independent)
It had a breathtaking start and a stunning finish. If you were of a mind to change cricket forever, there could hardly have been a more substantial pair of bookends.
2008-06-11 04:51:01 -
ECB's Noyer 'confident' inflation will ease steadily in H2, early 2009 (The Forex Market)
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - European Governing Council (ECB) member Christian Noyer said he is "confident" that inflation will ease progressively in the second half of this year and the beginning of 2009.
2008-06-11 04:51:27 -
UPDATE: UK Government Reappoints 4 Members To BOE Court Of Directors (The Forex Market)
(Adds context.) LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. government Wednesday appointed four members of the Bank of England's Court of Directors to new, three-year terms.
2008-06-11 04:51:38 -
The Buzz On Business (Modesto Bee)
HIGHER INTEREST RATES AHEAD? Ramping up his tough anti-inflation talk, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is raising expectations on Wall Street and elsewhere that the central bank could boost interest rates sooner than anticipated if high oil and food costs threaten to spur a broader bout of spiraling prices. Over the past week, Bernanke has been sounding the alarm ever louder about the ...
2008-06-11 04:54:24 -
Jobless up for fourth straight month (Reuters.co.uk)
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of unemployed people claiming jobless benefits rose for a fourth consecutive month in May in a sign that a slowing economy is taking its toll on the labour market.
2008-06-11 04:57:23 -
Obama, Embarrassed - Slate
Scarlett Johansson doesn't understand why Barack Obama finds time to return her emails . ("You'd imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly traveling and constantly 'on' — how can he return these personal e-mails? But he does ...."). I ...
2008-06-11 12:44:00 -
President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war - Times Online
President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for ...
2008-06-11 02:24:00 -
NZ interest rates 'out of kilter' - Ashburton Guardian
New Zealand farmers are being disadvantaged in a global economy by excessively high interest rates, says Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers chairman Rupert Curd. While fertiliser and diesel prices have skyrocketed, these trends are happening ...
2008-06-10 01:50:00 -
Are you worried about your home? - BBC News
If you own a house, it could be worth less than your mortgage. Even if you sell it you won't be able to give the bank or building society all their cash back.
2008-06-10 07:19:00 -
Times Get Tough For Landlords (The Motley Fool)
Existing buy-to-letters are starting to feel the bite with a combination of payment shock, falling prices and diminishing returns.
2008-06-10 08:20:51