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Mortgage Rates Rise Again - Jackson Sun
Fixed-rate mortgages have reached their highest rates in nearly 10 months, according to bankrate.com. The nationally averaged, 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage jumped more than a quarter percent this week, to 6.52 percent from 6.26 percent, according to ...
2008-06-13 06:11:00 -
Hudson City Mortgage Applications Running at Record Pace - MSN MoneyCentral
PARAMUS, N.J., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.'s ("Hudson City") HCBK mortgage applications are continuing to come in at a record pace. This performance contrasts dramatically with the Mortgage Bankers Association report ...
2008-06-11 08:44:00 -
Mortgage Rates At Their Highest Level This Year - HULIQ.com
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey shows fixed mortgage rates rising almost as fast as gas prices. Even 6.3 percent rises in pending home sales for April are no contest to how serious the current inflation concerns have on mortgage rates ...
2008-06-13 04:59:00 -
Australian, N.Z. Dollars Post Weekly Loss on Outlook for Rates - Bloomberg
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian dollar posted its biggest weekly loss in almost three months and the New Zealand currency had a third weekly decline as traders added to bets the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. The two currencies ...
2008-06-13 12:20:00 -
Babcock Power May Have to Sell Best Asset, Bank Says (Update2) - Bloomberg
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Babcock & Brown Power , Australia's biggest publicly traded power generator, may have to sell its best plant to bolster funds as natural gas supply disruptions in Western Australia cut profit, Credit Suisse Group said. The ...
2008-06-13 01:46:00 -
US May foreclosures rise 48 pct on year-RealtyTrac - Forbes
United States - NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home foreclosure filings in May increased from April and were a whopping 48 percent higher than a year earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said Friday. Home foreclosure filings in May totaled 261,255 ...
2008-06-13 02:08:00 -
PAREXEL Reaches Agreement To Acquire ClinPhone (The San Francisco Examiner)
BOSTON , June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PAREXEL International Corporation (Nasdaq: PRXL ), a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, today announced that the Boards of PAREXEL International and ClinPhone plc, a company traded on the London Stock Exchange, ("ClinPhone") have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended proposal whereby a wholly owned subsidiary of PAREXEL ...
2008-06-13 05:35:11 -
Canadian 2-Year Bond Heads for Biggest Weekly Loss Since 2001 (Bloomberg.com)
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's two-year government bond headed for the biggest weekly decline since November 2001 as accelerating inflation led the central bank to end its rate- cutting cycle.
2008-06-13 06:04:42 -
Bankruptcy numbers continue to increase (Baltimore Examiner)
With no money to spare for parking, Kelly Williams, a struggling single mother of four, left her rented Dundalk home and drove downtown, double-parking her car near the Garmatz Federal Courthouse, as she delivered one last piece of information that would complete her bankruptcy application.
2008-06-13 05:35:40 -
Mortgage Rates Rise Again (The Jackson Sun)
Fixed-rate mortgages have reached their highest rates in nearly 10 months, according to bankrate.com.
2008-06-13 06:09:23 -
School district knocks off another $222,000 on referendum bonds (West Salem Coulee News)
The West Salem School District will save taxpayers over $222,000 after it refinanced bonds taken out for the elementary school referendum.
2008-06-13 05:41:02 -
Business In Brief (Daily Record)
ASDA have been named the lowest priced store chain for the 11th year in a row.
2008-06-13 04:10:03 -
After rough April, Hawai'i foreclosures up 26% in May (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hawai'i home foreclosure filings rose 26 percent in May to 162 from 129 a year earlier, the smallest year-over-year increase since a 24 percent rise in January, according to a new report from RealtyTrac.
2008-06-13 04:24:42 -
Movers: Yahoo, Google, US Airways, Steel Dynamics (BusinessWeek)
Stocks in the news on Friday
2008-06-13 06:17:48 -
Farmland Reaps Bonanza for TIAA-CREF as Commodity Prices Surge (Bloomberg.com)
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- TIAA-CREF, the largest U.S. manager of retirement funds, bought $340 million of farmland in seven states in December. George Washington University plans to earmark $100 million for agricultural investments during the next year.
2008-06-13 06:20:02