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BBC News
PRESS DIGEST – Financial Times – Nov 1Reuters -3 hours agoBanks and building societies have begun offering mainstream mortgages of up to five times joint salary levels to try to attract first-time buyers. …Scottish Business Briefing – November 1ScotsmanAbbey lends five times your wageBBC NewsHome loans on offer at five times salary levelFinancial Timesall 4 [...]

Fitch affirms all ratings of BCA, BRI, Bank NiagaAntara, Indonesia -3 hours ago… long-term foreign currency 'BB-', short-term foreign currency … Bank Niaga's long-term foreign currency IDR 'BB … a still high level of impaired loans mitigated by …
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Washington Post
Adjustable Rate Worries Mortgage HoldersForbes, NY -1 hour ago… An AP-AOL Real Estate Poll found that more than one-third – 36 percent – of those surveyed with adjustable-rate mortgages worry that they won't be able to …Homeowners with ARMs are optimisticLos Angeles TimesFew homeowners see home values declining: surveyMarketWatchThree On Your Side: Foreclosures and Interest Rates [...]

Development bank offers RI $4 billion in loans and grantsJakarta Post, Indonesia -3 hours ago… Development Bank (ADB) has unveiled a four-year lending plan called the Indonesia Country Strategy and Program (CSP), with US$4 billion in loans and grants …ADB upbeat about infrastructure conferenceJakarta PostADB sees Indonesia 2006 GDP growth of 5.5 pctReutersall 11 news articles
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Venture Firm Is Giving Loans a TryNew York Times, United States -1 hour ago… Ventures, one of the nation’s oldest venture capital firms, has come up with an unusual program to attract promising entrepreneurs: It will offer loans of up …Charles River Ventures rolls out a seed-money program for Net …Boston Globeall 2 news articles
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Policies create need for private loansUSA Today -2 hours ago… USA TODAY's article on the traps of private college loans was important and timely. But it glossed over specific Republican policies …
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BBC News
Scottish Business Briefing – November 1Scotsman, United Kingdom -53 minutes ago… The industry standard is currently up to three-and-a-half times a borrower's salary – however, Bank of Ireland Mortgages and Bristol and West recently …PRESS DIGEST – Financial Times – Nov 1ReutersAbbey lends five times your wageBBC NewsHome loans on offer at five times salary levelFinancial [...]

What Mortgage
Too good to be true mortgages don't exist, warns MoneyfactsFair Investment Company, UK -26 minutes agoFinancial advice website Moneyfacts.co.uk has warned consumers to be wary of mortgage deals that seemingly have 'too good to be true' interest rates as they …LOW RATE MORTGAGE DEALS VANISH, BUT IT'S NOT BAD NEWS FOR ALLFirstrungall 3 news articles
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Results of AP-AOL poll on mortgagesBusinessWeek -1 hour agoNOV. 1 1:33 AM ET The Associated Press-AOL Real Estate poll on public attitudes about mortgages and particularly adjustable rate mortgages was conducted Sept. …Results of AP-AOL Poll on MortgagesForbesall 18 news articles
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Housing loans may become costlyGulf Times, Qatar -1 hour agoNEW DELHI: With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cautioning banks yesterday against reckless lending to the real estate sector, getting bank loans for the …RBI may tighten monetary policy by targeting propertyGulf Timesall 2 news articles
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