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Bloomberg The risk of losses on European government bonds is mounting as the economic slowdown threatens credit ratings in Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece. Credit-default swaps tied to the debt of Ireland rose more than seven-fold ... to be threatened with a debt downgrade when Standard & Poor’s said the country’s long-term rating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 11:03:02
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Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate
September 30th, 2008 The guidelines for this carnival ... now talking about. The country runs on credit, and right now, it is drying up, and not just mortgage credit, but commercial credit and even corporate credit (Caterpillar has some AA rated bonds they're trying [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 13:16:43
Realogy Now on Endangered List
A: Realogy was taken private by Apollo Management in a $6.6Bln LBO, from NRT last year. Talk about ill timing ... . Standard & Poor's slashed Realogy's corporate credit rating to CC from CCC last week. A CC rating ... . This will be one of the side effects of the credit crisis / severe economic slowdown on both the country [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 14:23:28
Live Within the Harvest of Your Own Creation
Live within your harvestThis phrase has woven itself through my consciousness ever since I saw it painted on a sign at the country store ... was willing to loan a nice young couple with a great credit rating?It’s easy, and probably pretty useless ... .It seemed more than fitting in this time of economic craziness. We all need to reframe “greed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 00:49:39
The Fed Translated….
The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points to 1 percent ... Greenspan is being blamed, in part, for causing the credit crisis by leaving interest rates too low ... the world is damping the prospects for U.S. exports when other countries are in bad economic straights [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 20:41:31
Mortgage rates slide under 5%
Rates on 30-year fixed-rate loans fell across the country for the week ended Thursday to an average of 4 ... Altman, a partner with WestCal Mortgage Corp. in Orange, said homebuyers with good credit and a 20% down ... .96%, the lowest in at least 38 years, says mortgage giant Freddie Mac. It began tracking rates [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 22:02:07
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index (BSV) Is a Great Safe Haven
Wall Street is in deep, deep hole. Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) is in Chapter 11 and AIG (NSYE:AIG), the biggest insurers in the country, is not far behind. It needs a loan of $75 billion to stay alive. Meanwhile, the country's biggest savings and loan bank WaMu (NYSE:WM) has a junk credit rating [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 20:44:28
Stop building to help housing prices recover?
So many plans and ideas are being floated to repair the country's economic situation. David Reilly of the Wall St ... to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 800,000 in October, according to Credit Suisse. Housing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 19:37:46
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