Loan and Mortgages News
Japan Mulls Using FX Reserves for LoanWall Street JournalWith the global financial crisis intensifying, Japan's multinationals are facing difficulties procuring foreign currencies such as the dollar abroad, and the JBIC is extending loans to them, it said. But only JBIC's financial power may not be enough to …
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The Money Times
Mortgage rates are low, but fees aren’tYoungstown Vindicator, OHNew rules by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are upping the fees for borrowers with less than perfect credit, those in the mortgage industry say. Other increased costs reflect the uncertainty in the mortgage market, as lenders try to reduce their risk and …Low Mortgage Rates [...]
Washington Mutual kept mortgage payments so low, loan balances …Dallas Morning News, TXDuring the great American housing bubble, many mortgage loans were made with little attention to borrowers' ability to repay over the long term. One big example, critics say, was Washington Mutual's Option ARM, an adjustable rate mortgage that had …Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert [...]
RTT News
Plosser’s New DissentWall Street Journal Blogs, NYFed programs have loaded its balance sheet with a complex array of loans and financial instruments – from loans formerly held by Bear Stearns and American International Group Inc. to short-term commercial paper commitments. A new program will fill it …The FED’s Unsound TheoriesLew RockwellFed's Plosser Suggests Swapping Illiquid [...]
New York Times
Canada May Issue More Auto LoansNew York Times, United StatesTogether, the Canadian and Ontario governments pledged $4 billion (Canadian) in emergency loans to the Canadian subsidiaries of General Motors and Chrysler last December, in a deal that also included some perks for auto-parts suppliers. …
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RTT News
Make the most of rare refi opportunitySeattle Times, United StatesNeither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac typically can refinance mortgages where the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio exceeds 80 percent without some form of credit insurance. That insurance can be difficult or impossible to obtain in many parts of the country that …Fannie Mae Jan portfolio down; delinquencies [...]
Icra revises Tata Motor Finance to A1Business Standard, IndiaICRA has also assigned the rating of A1 to the enhanced short term fund based limits of Rs 785 crore and Rs 1050 crore short term loans of TMFL, stated a release from ICRA. This is the highest credit quality rating assigned by ICRA to short-term debt …
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CNNMoney.com
Buffett's bailout headacheCNNMoney.comWhile the programs succeeded in restoring some semblance of financial stability, as Buffett notes, they also turned the world upside down for companies like Berkshire that hadn't grown dependent on constant access to short-term, wholesale funding. …
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Boston Globe
S&P 500 Drops to 12-Year Low as Citigroup, Humana, SLM RetreatBloomberg“The prospect of a recovery is good, but not in the short term.” The S&P 500 has dropped 18 percent this year following a 38 percent decline in 2008 that was the steepest annual retreat since 1937. The Dow average has fallen 20 percent. [...]
Maktoob Business (press release)
EU satisfied with French guarantees on car loansReutersBRUSSELS, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Saturday it was satisfied with guarantees set out by France that a state loan plan to its carmakers did not amount to protectionism. "The loan agreements to be concluded with the …EC Struggles [...]
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