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...As the FT’s Helen Thomas notes, Moulding once took to Instagram to celebrate his gym-going for 500 consecutive days in locations across the globe....
...Its editors are Derek Brower and Myles McCormick, with contributions from David Sheppard, Anjli Raval, Leslie Hook and Nathalie Thomas in London, and Gregory Meyer in New York....
...“Bank lenders may have an incentive to sell their worse flood risk to the GSEs,” the government-sponsored enterprises known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they write....
...Bernard M’Mahon of Philadelphia published the first American seed catalogue in booklet form in 1804....
...The S&P 500 closed up 0.7 per cent at 2,152.14 and oil logged its sharpest one-day rally since April....
...The demand for guns has only increased since then, sending shares in Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger up 35 per cent and 61 per cent on the year to date respectively, while the S&P 500 is up 24 per cent in...
...JP Morgan’s chief US equity strategist, Thomas Lee, believes stocks are due for a rally....
...Related links S&P release via Reuters Freddie Mac alters rules for private insurers – FT.com, February...
...S&P has been making waves by arguing that the assistance offered to lubricate the sale of Bear Stearns is small beans compared to the possible need to support the GSEs, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...Unsettled by further losses for US mortgage finance companies Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae, the FTSE 100 closed 122.8 points, or 2.2 per cent, lower at 5,406.9 – just 23 points away from bear market territory...
...By the close in New York, the S&P was 8.7 per cent lower at 1,107.06 - its biggest fall since 1987....
...The S&P/ASX 200 index ended 4.3 per cent lower at 4,600.50, a 21-month closing low....
...Previously, Triad Guaranty, one of the smallest mortgage insurers, had been downgraded to triple B by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P....
...A deep recession that could prolong the downturn “is the wild card in the market today”, said Mr Thomas....
...Richard Syron, chief executive of Freddie Mac, told FT.com in a View from the Top video interview that the paralysis in some segments of the US housing market had introduced an “enormous amount of fear....
...This tracks homes backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and so excludes many homes in high-price markets....
...The S&P 500 closed up 1.5 per cent at 1,485.01 near its high for the day....
...Since the piece was written, P&O have offered £5,000 to two of the families....
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