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home foreclosures ’
Aug 24th, 2009 |
By Horacio Marquez |
Category: Stock Market Investing
The U.S. stock market has enjoyed a strong rally since the early spring, but while the economy has shown improvement, it still faces major headwinds. So it may be best to hedge against the U.S. dollar, which is likely to experience a significant decline over the next few months.
Tags: AXP, Bond Fund, Central Banks, Commercial Real Estate, Corporate Bond, Corporate Bonds, Diversification, Downward Trend, Early Spring, euro, GLD, Gold Etf, Gold Prices, Gross Domestic Product, Hanging In The Balance, Healthcare Insurers, Healthcare Reform, home foreclosures, Horacio Marquez, Housing Market, Ishares, liquidity, LQD, Relapse, S Central, Second Wave, U S Stock Market, Udn, US dollar
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Feb 4th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics
The week begins with a bang, according to the Financial Times. The FT reports that, “The Obama administration is gearing up for a ‘big bang’ announcement within the next two weeks that will combine a bank clean-up with measures to reduce home foreclosures and probably steps to kick-start credit markets.”
Tags: Commercial Real Estate, Consumer Debt, Credit Markets, Dan Denning, Gross Domestic Product, home foreclosures, Marxism, Mortgage Market, Obama administration, Real Estate Loans
Posted in Financial News, Politics & Economics |
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Jan 23rd, 2009 |
By Martin Hutchinson |
Category: Financial News
Think about Michigan or about Ohio’s Mahoning Valley in the 1980s. Both were famous for industries that were world leaders in their time. Yet, once those industries decayed, large parts of both areas became wastelands of home foreclosures, crime and alcoholism.
Tags: Automobile Industry, British Economy, British sterling, Foreign Banks, home foreclosures, LEHMQ, Martin Hutchinson
Posted in Financial News |
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Nov 26th, 2008 |
By Mike Caggeso |
Category: Financial News
The U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department announced yesterday (Tuesday) $800 billion worth of stimulus measures to rev up three primary engines of the U.S. economy – homebuyers, consumers and small businesses.
Tags: Bailout Package, Barack Obama, Citigroup, Economic Infusion, Federal Reserve, FNM, FRE, government bailout, Hank Paulson, home foreclosures, Mike Caggeso, Mortgage Backed Securities, TALF, TARP, US debt
Posted in Financial News |
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Nov 12th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), the mortgage giants taken over by the federal government back in September, will lower monthly payments for hundreds of thousands of struggling U.S. homeowners as part of a plan to accelerate anti-foreclosure efforts, federal officials announced yesterday (Tuesday).
Tags: BAC, Citigroup Inc, Fannie Mae, FNM, FRE, home foreclosures, homeowner loans, JPM, MCO, subprime crisis, U S Treasury, U S Treasury Department, U.S. real estate crisis, WFC, William Patalon III
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Nov 6th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
It was January 1934. The Great Depression was five years old – but still had another five years to run.
The carnage was horrific: From 1929 to 1934, U.S. personal income plunged 44%, real output nosedived 30% and the unemployment rate soared to 25% of the American labor force.
Tags: AGO, Federal Reserve Bank, Great Depression, home foreclosures, Mortgage Foreclosure, Real Estate Foreclosures, Unemployment Rate, William Patalon III
Posted in Financial News |
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Oct 24th, 2008 |
By Shah Gilani |
Category: Financial News
It’s panic time for U.S. legislators, regulators, banks and lenders. More than $24 billion worth of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) are expected to “re-set” to higher interest rates in November – boosting the likelihood of further home foreclosures.
Tags: Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Citigroup Inc, Corporate Debt, credit crisis, Debt Market, Global Debt, Hedge Fund Manager, home foreclosures, JPM, LEHMQ, Libor, London Interbank Offered Rate, Mortgage Rate, Shah Gilani, TRIN, Unsecured Money, Wholesale Money Market
Posted in Financial News |
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Jun 16th, 2008 |
By Jennifer Yousfi |
Category: Real Estate Investments
There’s more bad news ahead for the U.S. economy as home foreclosures continue to rise. One out of every 483 U.S. households is at some stage of the foreclosure process, and with that many displaced or struggling homeowners, the economic recovery may well take longer than expected.
Tags: Food Prices, Foreclosure Market, gas prices, home foreclosures, LEH, Lehman Brothers, real estate, US consumers, US economy
Posted in Real Estate Investments |
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May 14th, 2008 |
By Jennifer Yousfi |
Category: Real Estate Investments
Foreclosure filings hit an all-time high with a 65% year-over-year increase in April and a 4% increase from March, RealtyTrac reported yesterday (Wednesday).
Tags: , credit crisis, Credit Markets, Distressed Homeowners, Foreclosure Loan, home foreclosures, Home Values, real state
Posted in Real Estate Investments |
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May 7th, 2008 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: US Dollar & Forex Trading
In the currency market, the dollar slipped some more against the euro. Late Tuesday, the euro was trading at $1.5525 vs. $1.5491 on Monday.
Tags: , Ben Bernanke, dollar, euro, home foreclosures, Mortgage Markets
Posted in US Dollar & Forex Trading |
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