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US stocks surged on Thursday after government data showed that the economy had exited recession in the third quarter to post its strongest growth in two years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average chalked up 199.89 points (2.05 percent) to 9,962.58, marking...
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Public Broadcasting and Bay News 9 have partnered to produce a program focused on the Tampa Bay area mortgage crisis. “Facing the Mortgage Crisis: A Florida Matters Special” takes a look at how the mortgage crisis is affecting homeowners in the Bay area,...
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President Barack Obama rolled out a bold $75 billion, three-part plan Wednesday to halt the soaring rate of mortgage foreclosures nationwide, one that seeks to encourage refinancing of homes now worth less than their mortgages and provides incentives...
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Some voters on Nov. 4 will be hard pressed to find a ballot measure they can vote yes on with confidence...It's Proposition 12, a $900 million bond issue to finance home loans for veterans. (Yes, that's million, not billion.) The yearly payments would...
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Statistical Dead Heat Realls Era of "Three yards and a cloud of dust" OhioNewsBureau by John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: With less than a month until Election Day, the ground game for president between Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and Arizona...
Tags: Ohio, Barack Obama, John McCain, Keating Five, economy, jobs, subprime loans, mortgage crisis, federal bailout, Working America, AFL-CIO
Ohio Senators, Heeding Advice from World's Richest Man, Act Quickly to Avoid New Depression OhioNewsBureau by John Michael Spinelli Columbus, Ohio: Calling it an "economic Pearl Harbor," Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, told...
Tags: Ohio, George Voinovich, Sherrod Brown, economy, jobs, subprime loans, mortgage crisis, federal bailout
But the main proposals to ease the foreclosure problem face practical and political problems, and there's no consensus that the measures would actually work...Both face practical and political problems, and there's no consensus that the measures would...
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Confronted by record foreclosures, the Federal Reserve is ready to give home buyers more protection from the types of shady lending practices that have contributed to the housing crisis. Chairman Ben Bernanke and his central bank colleagues were expected...
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AIG shares tumbled $3.27, or 7.4 percent, to $41.45 in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company disclosed it needs fresh cash and reported a first-quarter loss of $7.81 billion. The capital raising effort will be a two-step process, with the...
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Black & Decker Corp. will cut about 700 jobs, or about 3 percent of its work force, and close a plant in Arkansas in the wake of a disappointing quarterly earnings report...The Towson-based toolmaker made the announcement Thursday after reporting that...
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