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• Gold Slips as Dollar Bounces; George Soros Rumored "Long Gold, Short Oil" as Wall Street Losses Mount; UK Credit ... (GoldSeek.com)

  THE SPOT PRICE OF GOLD dropped 1.3% at lunchtime in London on Friday, sliding into the US open – and heading for its first weekly loss in five – as world stock markets ticked higher.
  2008-07-18 06:06:46

• Record UK borrowing ups heat on Brown (The Globe and Mail)

  “Horrific, absolutely horrific” numbers indicate debt will overshoot government target
  2008-07-18 06:14:07

• Buying property in today's market (Cnylink)

  As news of an economic crisis in the housing market continues to pour in from national sources, buyers and sellers alike are left to wonder how small towns like Manlius will be
  2008-07-18 06:15:59

• Freddie Mac Mulls Stock Sale (INO News)

  (RTTNews) - Freddie Mac (FRE) is contemplating the sale of about $10 million in new shares to investors to raise capital, according to multiple media reports Friday morning.
  2008-07-18 06:25:10

• Record borrowing ups heat on Brown (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

  Fiscal rules may have to be relaxed after data on Friday showed public borrowing at record levels, threatening to breach the restrictions the government set itself on how much debt it can take on.
  2008-07-18 06:27:00

• IMF Warns on Inflation Threat (HispanicBusiness.com)

  No Related Stories at this time! In an update to its world economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says a global recession led by the American economic demise remained a possibility.
  2008-07-18 06:51:18

• Provident savers see bonuses cut (Channel 4)

  Friends Provident is slashing the final bonuses it pays to long-term savers after the value of its with-profits fund slid by more than 7% during the first half of the year, it said.
  2008-07-18 07:00:25

• Brown's fiscal rules 'may be rewritten' (AFP via Yahoo! News)

  Prime Minister Gordon Brown, once known as the "iron chancellor", was under fire from opposition politicians on Friday over a report that the government might bend his budget rules.
  2008-07-18 07:03:29

• Consolidating Your Loans by Refinancing - Walletpop.com

  When you refinance , you often seek to replace your current mortgage loan with a new loan that has a lower interest rate. The new lender pays off the current lender and becomes the lien holder on your home. If you have other debts and want to combine ...
  2008-07-14 05:59:00

• Auction Implosion Reaps Fees, Not Scorn, for Dealers: Joe Mysak - Bloomberg

  July 18 (Bloomberg) -- The surprising thing about the collapse of the auction-rate securities market is how well states and municipalities are taking it. Since dealers stopped supporting the $330 billion market back in February, issuers of auction ...
  2008-07-18 03:28:00

• States battle mortgage foreclosure threat; see chart (USA Today)

  Some state political leaders complain that federal efforts to avert foreclosures have fallen far short.
  2008-07-17 10:30:30

• LendingTree Chairman and CEO Named One of '50 Directors to Watch' by Directorship Magazine (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

  Douglas R. Lebda, a member of the Eastman Kodak board of directors, is 37 years old and named to the inaugural 'Directors to Watch: 50 Under 50' list.
  2008-07-18 12:01:00

• Home Front: Sacramento area's biggest mortgage lenders are ailing (The Sacramento Bee)

  Times have changed – definitely, for the worse – for more than half the lenders who dominated the Sacramento-area mortgage market during the excesses of the housing boom.
  2008-07-18 12:17:58

• Lenders' status (The Sacramento Bee)

  Homeowners aren't the only ones struggling with loans taken out in the past few years. From June 2005 to June 2007, the region's top 10 mortgage lenders made 176,451 purchase, refinance and home equity loans in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, according to DataQuick Information Systems. Here's a look at where they stand today.
  2008-07-18 12:18:18

• A lifeline for those in trouble (Stamford Advocate)

  After six months of haggling and political gamesmanship, a massive housing relief bill is heading for final approval.
  2008-07-18 12:20:39

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