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Bernanke Plays `Dangerous Game' Balancing Rate Talk With Action - Bloomberg
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke , by voicing concern about inflation and the slumping dollar, has fanned investor expectations for an interest-rate increase as soon as August. He may regret it. Raising rates may ...
2008-06-23 09:37:00 -
Rove: Obama's the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making ... - ABC News Blogs
ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as "coolly arrogant." "Even if you never met ...
2008-06-23 12:40:00 -
Sneak Peek Of BillShrink.com's New Credit Card Comparison Tool - Consumerist.com
Billshrink.com is going to bring a never-before-seen level of transparency to consumers looking for the best credit card offer. Think of it as a turbocharged dashboard for navigating the credit card market. The site launched earlier this year as ...
2008-06-23 08:08:00 -
Rewards cards often aren't worth the bother - Houston Chronicle
These days, we're all trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. Credit card companies know this, so they are hyping rewards cards as a way to stretch cash. Be careful, people. Easy credit helped to create the economic downturn and home mortgage crisis ...
2008-06-19 05:53:00 -
More power, less pollution - AZCentral.com
It's the question visitors to Arizona ask often when the subject is sustainability: With so much sunshine and so much empty land — and empty rooftops — where's all the solar power? The quick answer is cost. Building solar-power plants is ...
2008-06-23 11:46:00 -
Controlling Interest - Kommersant
It is expected that a large number of actively-traded shares of Russian banks , which posted significant growth in 2005, will appear on the market this year. As before, however, the banks prefer to sell large chunks of shares to one buyer rather than ...
2008-06-23 10:20:00 -
Sterling drifts lower against the greenback - Commodity Online
Sterling fell against the dollar after Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentence commented that interest rates might not have to be raised by as much or as quickly to cool inflationary pressures as many were expecting. According to him current ...
2008-06-23 11:31:00 -
Knowing just what the credit score is - San Francisco Gate
January February March April May June July August September October November December 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 If you're shopping for a loan, it's good to know your credit score. The question is, what ...
2008-06-23 11:53:00 -
Mortgage Games - Forbes
When the U.S. housing industry tries to figure out how to extricate itself from the subprime crisis , it might want to read up on game theory . It seems that some homeowners who made bad bets on housing prices as the market crested a few years ago ...
2008-06-23 05:12:00 -
As Dallas County DA accuses AG of politics in mortgage fraud case ... - Dallas Morning News
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and the Texas attorney general's office are at odds over what Mr. Watkins calls a political maneuver meant to embarrass him. Central to the conflict is the release of a letter by the attorney general's ...
2008-06-24 12:29:00 -
Asian Financial Stocks Fall; Mining Shares Gain on Ore Price - Bloomberg
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Asian financial stocks fell after Goldman, Sachs & Co. advised selling banks as credit losses widen and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. said the parent of Japan's largest consumer-finance company may be insolvent. Australia & New ...
2008-06-24 12:14:00 -
European Stocks Rise, Led by Antofagasta; U.S. Futures Gain - Bloomberg
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- European stock rose for the first time in five days after analysts recommended buying shares of Antofagasta Plc and ASML Holding NV, while Bradford & Bingley Plc jumped after rejecting an offer from Resolution Ltd. U.S. index ...
2008-06-24 12:29:00 -
Find Neighborhood Love on hoodeo by eppraisal.com - Forbes
The team behind eppraisal.com today announced the beta launch of hoodeo(TM) (www.hoodeo.com). Hoodeo answers the question: where are my best places to live? Hoodeo allows consumers to start their home search by first knowing where to look. Whether ...
2008-06-24 12:29:00 -
New Zealand Finance Company, MARAC, Launches Inaugural Secured Bond Offer (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
New Zealand finance and investment company, MARAC announce the launch of its inaugural offer of up to NZ $100 million of first ranking* five-year, fixed rate, secured bonds ("Secured Bonds") with up to a further NZ $25 million of Secured Bonds available by way of oversubscriptions ("Offer").
2008-06-24 12:01:00 -
FBI promises more fraud arrests - BBC Business
A senior FBI officer has told the BBC that more arrests will be made as part of its probe into mortgage fraud and the credit crunch. Section chief for Financial Crimes, Sharon Ormsby, said hundreds of arrests already made were just a "good start"
2008-06-23 10:49:00