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...A report from the Mortgage Bankers’ Association on mortgage applications is also due for release....
...Morten O. Ravn: There are some green shoots in the latest US numbers signalling that the Federal Open Market Committee may be able to avoid continuing aggressive fed funds rate rises....
...Meanwhile, the National Association of Homebuilders’ housing market index, a gauge of homebuilder confidence, is expected to hold steady as mortgage rates start to tick higher....
...On the expenditure side, mortgage rates won’t fall and food and transport prices will probably be higher....
...Shareholders should also vote against the re-election of James Johnson, head of the board’s compensation committee and former chief executive of US mortgage giant Fannie Mae, Glass Lewis, the advisory firm...
...The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released on Monday rose to 52 this month, up from 44 in May....
...That is akin to the National Rifle Association reacting to the massacre in Connecticut by demanding every school bristle with guns. onohana@aol.com...
...The merger had also won support from the Communication Workers of America union, the Hispanic Federation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and more than 100 mayors and two...
...By way of contrast, in a separate announcement, Moody’s affirmed the triple A ratings of US companies ADP, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft....
...On federal minimum wage: “That is not within the scope of the powers that are given to the federal government.”...
...Top of that list are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the huge mortgage financiers. Together they manage a $2,500bn-$3,000bn mortgage portfolio....
...In September 2008, at the height of the financial firestorm sweeping the planet, the US government stepped in to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two pillars of its mortgage market....
...fact, in the case of Freddie Mac, the government sponsored agency actually reported another rise in delinquencies on the loans it guarantees on Tuesday as well as a 44.5 per cent drop in the size of its mortgage...
...Figures released on Thursday by the National Association of Broadcasters estimated that 2.2m households had yet to adapt their equipment for the digital TV transition, although 440,000 of these had taken...
...“The reduction in affordable mortgage products continues to hamper buyers, not only in New York, but in most housing markets across the country.”...
...He had also previously held senior posts in the banking sector including top positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston....
...In Toronto, where liquidity is smaller because of the Thomson family’s controlling stake, the shares have slipped from above C$35 in the same period, but rallied $1.51 to $31.93 by lunchtime on Thursday....
...The existence of the programme emerged last week when James Johnson, former head of Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored housing finance enterprise, resigned from Barack Obama’s vice-presidential search...
...Financial, a subprime lender that is part of a federal investigation....
...A Washington ethics watchdog on Friday called for Congress to investigate whether Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad, two Democratic senators, had received favourable mortgages from Countrywide, the embattled...
...Steve O’Connor, senior vice-president for public policy at the Mortgage Bankers Association, said there were signs that Democratic lawmakers could favour a bail-out of homeowners, but that such a proposal...
...The early market panic over the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis was exacerbated by William Poole, president of the St Louis Federal Reserve, who denied that the subprime issue pointed to a systemic...
...A recent report by the National Association of Counties suggests that a problem once confined to a few of the country's most desirable areas such as Orange County, California, Boston and Washington has become...
...Of course, any restrictions on its growth are also bad for shareholders, who have benefited from the company's increasingly large mortgage purchases over the years....
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