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Greenback Falls Back (Forbes)
Dollar pays the price of a stymied Fed and inflation-wary ECB.
2008-06-08 09:27:03 -
Stocks: S&P Trims Its Target (BusinessWeek)
The S&P 500 is now expected to advance 8.2% from current levels through yearend and 1% for the full year
2008-06-08 09:27:33 -
Gasoline to rise by P7.50 more per liter this month (Manila Standard Today)
GASOLINE and diesel prices will have to increase by P1.50 a liter each week from now until July 12 as a result of imported diesel soaring to $161 a barrel, an industry official said yesterday.
2008-06-08 09:37:08 -
Berkeley confronts budget dilemma (The Post and Courier)
MONCKS CORNER — Darned if they do, darned if they don't. That's how several Berkeley County Councilmen look at Supervisor Dan Davis' capital improvements proposal intended to pay for a jail expansion and improve roads, among other long-term projects. To pass them would require some type of tax increase because the money is not included in the current operations budget.
2008-06-08 09:43:04 -
Pending Resales of U.S. Houses Probably Decreased in April (Bloomberg.com)
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Fewer Americans probably signed contracts to buy previously owned homes in April, the fifth decline in six months, signaling no end to the housing slump, economists said before a private report today.
2008-06-08 09:44:52 -
Fixed income review (Trinidad Express)
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) announced on May 29 that they would maintain the RepoRate at 8.25 per cent.
2008-06-08 09:46:37 -
2,000 families to benefit from home scheme in Yenagoa - Vanguard
ABOUT 2,000 families are expected to benefit from the Bayelsa State government/private sector driven owned a home scheme in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital by 2010 if the Memorandum of Understanding between the state government and the management ...
2008-06-08 05:30:00 -
Australia Q1 Home Prices Fall To Five-Year Low - REIA - RTT News
(RTTNews) - Home prices in Australia dropped in the first quarter of 2008 by the most in five years. Survey results from the Real Estate Institute of Australia and Mortgage Choice showed the weighted average median home price fell 2.7 percent in the ...
2008-06-08 02:24:00 -
Crisis shifts to regional lenders - Financial Times
Home equity loans are rapidly emerging as the next front of the credit crunch, as falling house prices and lax underwriting lead to growing losses for US regional banks that have huge portfolios of such loans on their balance sheets. The rising ...
2008-06-08 03:28:00 -
Regional areas struggling more with debt - News.com.au
About two-thirds of households are easily meeting mortgages About 40pc of regional households are under mortgage pressure Calculator : Compare home loan rates REGIONAL and rural households are struggling more with their high debt loads than their ...
2008-06-08 06:27:00 -
Bailout Backlash (WBUR Boston)
As leaders in the US Senate back a bill to bail out foreclosed homeowners...some Bay State renters and homeowners aren't so supportive.
2008-06-08 07:07:08 -
N.Y. gay couples plan to dash to altar by way of Calif. (USA Today)
More than 12,000 same-sex couples from New York are expected to marry in California within the next three years, says a report today by UCLA's Williams Institute, which studies sexual orientation issues.
2008-06-08 07:59:12 -
Blaze destroys Norman home (The Norman Transcript)
A resident working on a vehicle in his garage accidentally sparked a fire Sunday that destroyed his home on Peregrine Drive, according to Norman fire officials.
2008-06-08 08:31:49 -
Family 'reaping the results of years of bad business' (Dayton Daily News)
The home foreclosure equation seems pretty clear-cut to Cheryl Owens as she sits inside the modest subsidized apartment her family moved to after losing their house to foreclosure.
2008-06-08 08:32:48 -
A Shift in Real Estate Books (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
With the plunge in the housing market, publishers are updating their backlist titles and rushing out newly acquired manuscripts to advise consumers.
2008-06-08 08:38:36