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Consortium gets Saudi power plant order 
BusinessWeek - Dec 28 5:48 AM
DEC. 28 8:27 A.M. ET A consortium led by Siemens AG has won a contract worth some 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion) to build a power plant and associated desalination facility in Saudi Arabia, the German industrial conglomerate said Wednesday.Save to My Web

Gold Climbs on Speculation Central Banks Will Add Reserves 
Bloomberg.com - Dec 28 12:56 PM
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) — Gold rose to a two-week high on speculation that central banks, the biggest holders of the precious metal, may buy more bullion to bolster their reserve assets.Save to My Web

Stocks Rise on Consumer Confidence Data 
AP via Yahoo! News - Dec 28 7:20 AM
Stocks rose as the bond market returned to normal trading, after sending a signal Tuesday that often precedes economic slowdowns.Save to My Web

AmeriCredit Speeds Up 
BusinessWeek - Dec 29 2:54 PM
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Mortgage filings reach lowest level since ‘02
Denver Post - Bloomberg News The number of mortgage applications filed last week fell to the lowest level in more than three years, it was announced Wednesday, more evidence that the U.S. housing market is stumbling. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s index of

Student Loan Burden Rises $10 bn a Year
Coyote Press - ‘Perfect Storm’ of more students and tuition doubling in past decade puts loan holders in heavy debt. Issue date: 11/11/05 Section: Coyote News The largest lenders in America have a plan to improve the federally guaranteed student loan program. They

Don’t let your ex trash your credit
MSN MoneyCentral - One of the nastiest shocks faced by many divorced people is how quickly an ex-spouse can ruin their credit. Here’s how to protect yourself and handle

No rate relief seen for 2006
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - By Michael Rappaport, Staff Writer Interest rates will climb and mortgages will get longer in 2006, according to projections made by the California Association of Mortgage Brokers. In its annual Mortgage Forecast, the group also predicts that

New Year's Resolutions: Taking Inventory On Personal Goals &
Falls Church News Press, VA - Dec 29, 2005 and home-equity loans, come with much lower interest rates, and should be tackled only when all the credit card debt is banished for good. Efforts at loan

Using equity, credit cards to pay bills is troubling
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Dec 4, 2005 on a loan where your house serves as collateral on a secured loan, the lender The number of people who took out home equity loans to pay off credit-card debts

Real Estate Weekly
MarketWatch - 22 hours ago What do you do if the mortgage you thought you were signing for isn't the one you end up with, and should you lock in the rate on your home-equity loan now?

Habitat house is headed to Baraboo
Baraboo News Republic, WI - Dec 30, 2005 The "sweat equity" families put into their Habitat homes a budget of $60,000 on each home, though they Habitat directly administers a zero percent loan over 20

Where to get a personal loan
Bankrate.com - Dec 28, 2005 on your credit card. You can check personal loan rates in your market using Bankrate's "Compare Home Equity Loan Rates" feature.

If BlackBerry Gets Smushed… 
BusinessWeek - Dec 28 9:14 PM
Although the beloved e-mail service may be shut down by a legal ruling, some good alternatives are out there Save to My Web

Stocks Up As Bond Market Returns to Normal 
AP via Yahoo! News - Dec 28 7:13 AM
Stocks opened higher as the bond market returned to normal trading, after sending a signal Tuesday that often precedes economic slowdowns.Save to My Web

Mortgage applications down 6.8% - housing prices to decline for decades slowly and steadily Federal Reserve loses  
India Daily - Dec 28 9:35 AM
The economy is plagued by the real-estate bubble. The escalated prices have to correct. The long term bonds knows that well.Save to My Web

Fitch Rates IndyMac MBS RAST $237.4 Million, Series 2005-A16 
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 29 12:36 PM
NEW YORK—-Dec. 29, 2005–Fitch rates IndyMac MBS, Inc., Residential Asset Securitization Trust , series 2005-A16, residential mortgage pass-through certificates, as follows: $237.4 million classes A-1 through A-3, PO, A-X, and A-R, ‘AAA’ ;Save to My Web

U.S. Growth May Hinge on Businesses
New York Times - The housing market is gradually fading as a prop for the economy, eroding a source of increased wealth that allowed consumers to borrow and spend avidly in recent years. Meanwhile, the bond market, where short-term interest rates are now slightly

Business Digest: U.S. oil companies to drill again in Libya mortgage
Austin American-Statesman - DALLAS ConocoPhillips Co., Marathon Oil Corp. and Amerada Hess Corp. said Thursday that they will resume oil and gas operations in Libya after a nearly 19-year absence. The return reflects renewed U.S. interests in Libya after the U.S. government

Mortgage Rates Fall to 6.22 Percent
Salon - The mortgage company Freddie Mac, in its weekly survey, reported that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dipped to 6.22 percent for the week ending Thursday. That was down from last week’s average rate of 6.26 percent and was the lowest since

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MORTGAGE VS. MARKET
Daily Breeze, CA - Dec 19, 2005 plenty of homeowners have taken advantage of low interest rates to refinance their home that 11 percent of the cash freed up through mortgage refinancing was

Bond market may mean higher costs for home
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Real Estate Loan Closing - $3 million Ft Lauderdale Retail
PR Web (press release), WA - Dec 23, 2005 FL. Matrix provides commercial mortgage acquisition, refinance and takeout loans ranging from $200,000 to $250,000,000. Loan to

Fitch Rates $93.6MM Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Series
Business Wire (press release), CA - 12 hours ago consist of 154 conventional, fully amortizing, 15-year fixed-rate mortgage loans with Rate/term and cash-out refinance loans represent 44.33% and 28.44% of the

BTU reports $1.4M in new contracts
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Mortgage Applications Fall to 3.5-Year Low
FOX News - NEW YORK U.S. mortgage applications slid to a more than 3-1/2-year low last week amid a sharp drop in

Superdome playing major role as New Orleans battles back
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A rough new year for consumers
MSNBC - The American consumer has been the hero of the economy for the past few years, accounting for some 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. Even after gasoline prices spiked in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita causing a decade-low in consumer

Couple’s violations add up: $43,638
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Good news for would-be
Tucson Citizen - WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates edged down this week, good news for people looking to buy a slice of the American dream - their own

Fitch Rates CWALT’s $998.4MM Mtge P-T Ctfs Series 2005-77T1 
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Dec 28 12:58 PM
NEW YORK—-Dec. 28, 2005–Fitch rates CWALT, Inc.’s mortgage pass-through certificates, Alternative Loan Trust, series 2005-77T1, as follows:Save to My Web

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Home loans catch up to consumers 
The Arizona Republic - Dec 20 6:43 AM
The housing boom has bailed out a lot of people in metropolitan Phoenix. Homeowners caught between higher bill payments and flat incomes have been able to tap their rapidly rising home equity to stay afloat or even buy new cars and furniture.Save to My Web

Where Holiday Spirit Meets Gl hwein 
BusinessWeek - Dec 21 9:29 PM
Germany’s Christmas Markets are an enduring tradition that have become a big business as towns and cities compete to outdo each other Save to My Web

More county housing available 
The Eureka Reporter - Dec 27 2:00 PM
A report issued recently by the Humboldt Association of Realtors shows housing affordability in the county at or near an all-time low. However, according to real estate broker Jeff Katz, the numbers may not be as bad as they appear.Save to My Web

Omens of the coming Real Estate Bubble?
Political Gateway - Florida Dec 28th (Political Gateway) - Back in July of this year (2005) I wrote a column about the housing bubble. My prediction was after the new bankruptcy laws go into effect, it will start to burst. Was I right? First let me say, I am a

Ending the spending addiction
Kansas City Star - Eva Husted has avoided financial ruin more times than she would like to count. I work hard, but I spend money too, Husted told a financial planner recently. The 53-year-old family advocacy therapist from Kansas City likens her spending patterns

Loans catch up to consumers
Arizona Republic - The housing boom has bailed out a lot of people in metropolitan Phoenix. Homeowners caught between higher bill payments and flat incomes have been able to tap their rapidly rising

Rising oil prices mean only modest stock gains
Arizona Daily Sun - NEW YORK (AP) — Rising oil prices and the return of a bond market anomaly cut into Wall Street’s early gains Wednesday, leaving stocks with only a modest advance. The market pulled back in response to a jump in crude oil prices. Oil gained after

Lewis: Wealthy feeling right at
Denver Post - If there’s a housing bubble about to burst, wealthy homeowners may not see it coming. In a survey of wealthy Americans by Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc., 65 percent said they expect to see double-digit increases in the value of

Higher rates will slow down mortgage lending
Louisville Courier-Journal - NEW YORK — When Nancy Petty took prospective

Mortgage Fraud Thrives In Hot Real Estate Environment
Los Angeles Times - Mortgage scams thrive amid soaring

Interest-Only: Borrower Beware
Washington Post - Steve Clerman decided to

No rate relief seen for 2006
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - By Michael Rappaport, Staff Writer Interest rates will climb and mortgages will get longer in 2006, according to projections made by the California Association of Mortgage Brokers. In its annual Mortgage Forecast, the group also predicts that