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"Foreclosure Avalanche" Prompts Servicer Survey

2008 Conforming Loan Limit Announced By OFHEO

A Blockbuster Week for Data

A Look at GSE 2007 Earnings; Ouch!

After ADP, Markets Expect Lower Consensus for Nonfarm Payrolls

AG Cuomo May Have Reached Agreement with Credit Agencies

Alt-A Lender Crashes and Takes Stock Market With It

Alt-A Lender GreenPoint Mortgage Closes Multiple Offices

Alt-A Lender Recinds Earnings Guidance In Wake Of Loan Losses

American Cities See Record Annual Foreclosure Rate Increases in Q2

American Express Survey Shows Companies to Focus on Growth and Expenses

And Yet the Sale of Countrywide is Going to Happen

Annual Home Foreclosures Soared by 48% in May, Says Report

Another Attempt to Ameliorate the Housing Situation Proposed

Another Bad Month for Census Report on Permits, Housing Starts

Another Dramatic Downturn in Mortgage Rates

Another Loss for Countrywide as Bank of America Plans for Future

Apartment Complexes May Benefit From FCC Action Against Cable Contracts

Appraisal Reform Accord Reached By NY Attorney General and GSEs

Are Freddie and Fannie Insolvent?

Are Mortgage Applications Up or Are Applicants Hedging Their Bets?

Are Programs Beginning to Slow Rate of Foreclosure Growth?

ARM Applications Continue To Dwindle While Rates Inched Up

ARM Freeze Yields Solution To All World Problems

Atlanta Fed's Lockhart Says U.S. Slowdown to Have Global Impact

August Pending Home Sales Do Not Portend Well For Year End Closings

Bank of America to Buy Countrywide

Banking and Housing Giants Testify About Subprime Solutions

Banks Show Elevated Reluctance To Lend

Battered GSE Stocks Recover Slightly in Early Tuesday Trading

Bear Stearns Snatches Last-Gasp First Quarter Profit, Faces Multiple Probes

Bernanke says U.S. Economy is Facing Numerous Challenges

Bernanke Calls for Consolidated Supervision of Banks

Bernanke Expected to Focus on Inflation at Semi-Annual Testimony

Bernanke Says Fed "Attentive" to U.S. Dollar Slide

Bernanke Says Fed May Extend Lending Access to 2009

Bernanke Says Housing Crisis is Central Issue to Economy

Bernanke Urges Firms to Raise More Capital

Bernanke: Financial Market Conditions "Far From Normal"

Big Losses for PMI Company and HR Block Unloads Option One

Big Players Call On OFHEO to Rethink GSE Decision

Bill to Aid Communities Cope With Aftermath of Foreclosure Passes House

Bold, Creative, Aggressive Policy Action Needed for GSEs to Survive

Boston Fed's Rosengren Surprised Housing Market Hasn't Bounced

Buffet Offers Help to Bond Insurers

Builder Spirits Not Rebounding While Housing Starts, Permints Continue To Slide

Builders Confidence Hits 26 Year Low as Permits and Starts Fall Again

Builders Hold Back on New Construction but Some See Hope

Bush Plan To Help The Ailing Housing Markets

Bush's Subprime Rescue Plan Coincides With Sobering Delinquency Report

Buying Virtual Real Estate Is Neither Easy Or Cheap

California to Retrain Laid-off Mortgage Workers

Can Saving PMI Also Save the Economy? Cramer Thinks So

Capitol Hill Deals with Housing Problems in Several Venues

Case Shiller Home Price Index Declines by Record Annual Levels in April

Case Shiller, OFHEO Reports Add to the General Housing Gloom

Case-Shiller Home Price Index Tumbles Further in March and Q1

Cash-Out Refi's Declining in Both Numbers and Amounts

Casualties on Wall Street Continue to Rise

Census and HUD Data Indicates That Builders Are Not Bouncing Back

Central Bank Leaders Prepared to Face Upside Inflation Risks

Central Bank Watch: Bernanke Warns of U.S. Contraction

Central Bank Watch: Market Attention Shifts to ECB - Finally Time to Hike?

Central Bank Watch: Week Saw Plenty of Rate Decisions but Few Surprises

Checking Free Credit Reports Is A Good Idea

CIT Group Sells Off its Last Home Related Business Interests

Citigroup Announces $5.1 Billion Loss in First Quarter

Citigroup Announces Unprecidented Losses; Dividend Cut

Citigroup Knocks Builder Stocks and Takes Hit of Their Own

Condo Sales Main Driver of 2.0% Rise in U.S. Existing Home Sales

Construction Spending Slack Picked Up By Non-Residential Sector

Consumer Confidence Falls Less Than Expected in April

Consumer Confidence Plummets to Lowest Level Since 1992

Consumer Credit Rises Short of Forecasts in February

Consumer Credit Rises Well Above Forecasts in February

Consumer Sentiment Unaffected by Tax Rebates

Core CPI Gives Fed Green Light to Cut, Economist Says

Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo Under SEC Spotlight

Countrywide CEO Waives Massive Severance Package

Countrywide Fundings Fall; Lines Up $12 Billion Credit

Countrywide Gets Big Cash Infusion And May Survive Crisis

Countrywide Joins The Mortgage Lending Storm

Countrywide Mortgage Reports Huge 3rd Quarter Loss

Countrywide Rating Watch Revised By Fitch

Countrywide Reeling Again as Bankruptcy Rumors Fly

Countrywide To Cut As Many As 12000 Jobs

Credit Counselors and Short Sales May Bail Out Mortgagors

Credit Piggybacking - What Will They Think Of Next?

Current State of the Mortgage Market

Dallas Fed Head Fisher Warns that Slowdown Will Be Prolonged but Not Very Deep

Dallas Fed Mfg Index Declines in June

Dallas Fed's Fisher Expects Rate Hike Despite Slowing Growth

Delinquency Rates Climb Mainly In Four States

Delinquent Homeowners Get a New "Lifeline"

Deterioration in Pending Home Sales Confirms Broader Trend, Economists Say

Don't Be Afraid of the Big Bad Housing Market

Doubting the Viability of Fannie Mae

Dozens of Our Readers Report From the Housing Front

Drop In Investment Purchases Offsets Vacation Property Sales Gains

E-Trade Suffers Subprime Wrath

Economic News Impacts Both Short- and Long-Term Rates; Applications Drop

Economist Calls April U.S. Durable Goods Report "Awfully Strong"

Economists Call Core Inflation 'Tame' Despite Soaring Energy Prices

Economists Divided on Implications of U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index

Economists Divided on What Jobless Claims Say About the Labor Market

Economists Divided on Whether Jobless Claims Signal Recessionary Data

Economists Look to FOMC Minutes for Rate Direction

Economists Speculate on Fed's Monetary Policy Following CPI Report

Efforts Made To Help Borrowers Avoid Foreclosure

Ex-Fed President Says Fannie and Freddie 'Insolvent'

Existing Home Sales and Prices Fall in January

Existing Home Sales Decline 2.0% in March

Existing Home Sales Decline Further to 4.89 Million

Existing Home Sales Drop Again

Existing Home Sales Drop At Fastest Rate In 18 Years

Existing Home Sales Essentially Unchanged In July

Existing Home Sales to Fall Below 5 Million in March

Existing Home Sales Were Down 2.6 Percent In April

Expect Pending Home Sales to Keep Falling, Economists Say

Experts Divided on Pending Home Sales Despite Consensus for Decline

Fannie Mae Reports Larger-Than-Expected Losses in Q1

Fannie Mae Tightens Loan Criteria for Credit Scores

Fears of Bear Stearns Bankruptcy Fallout Prompted Fed Plan, Says Geithner

Fed Announces Details of Next in Series of Liquidity Auctions

Fed Chair Promises "Substantive Additional Action" on Behalf of Economy

Fed Creates Two New Entities for Risk Management and Communication

Fed Cuts Rates by 25 Bps to 2.00%

Fed Funds Shift Slightly, Still Maintain Rate Hike Likely

Fed Governor Mishkin Resigns Post

Fed May Take "Breather" After Cut Next Week

Fed Minutes Say Next Move Could Be Higher Funds Rate

Fed Minutes Says Bear Stearns Actions, Primary Lending Facility Necessary

Fed Minutes to be Scrutinized Tomorrow

Fed Must Protect the Markets from Relapse, Kohn Says

Fed Slashes Interest Rates

Fed Slashes Interest Rates By 50 Basis Points

Fed Survey Shows Broad Tightening of Loan Standards

Fed to Conclude Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Arrangements by June 26

Fed to Examine Rules on Capital and Liquidity to Insulate Against Market Shocks

Fed to Make New Credit Card Proposal, Says Braunstein

Fed to Provide Maps of Foreclosure Hotspots

Fed Vice Chairman Warns Institutions to Review Risk in Financial Transactions

Fed's Bernanke Sees Inflation Risk Rising

Fed's Bernanke Defends Bear Sterns Rescue, 'Chaotic Unwinding' Avoided

Fed's Bernanke Says Impossible to Tell When Markets Will Normalize

Fed's Fisher Maintains "Strong Reluctance" About Further Rate Cuts

Fed's Fisher Says He Does Not Push For Higher Rates

Fed's Fisher Says Rate Cuts Not Fully Passed on to Borrowers

Fed's Geithner Calls on Unified Supervision of Banks and Wall Street

Fed's Kohn Says Economy to Grow in Second Half

Fed's Kohn Says Financial Regulations Should Be Strengthened

Fed's Kohn Tells Banks to Strengthen Reserves

Fed's Kroszner Says Disclosures Might Not Be Enough

Fed's Kroszner Says Fed Rules Will Affect Subprime and Alternative Mortgages

Fed's Kroszner Says Foreclosures to Increase in '08, Urges FHA Modernization

Fed's Kroszner says Stronger Banking Regulation Will Aid Mortgage Recovery

Fed's Kroszner Says U.S. Housing to Recover "Gradually"

Fed's Lacker Says Fed Should Identify Boundaries on Lending

Fed's Lacker Sees Economic Growth Accelerating in 2009

Fed's Lockhart Says Economy Still Faces Uncertainty - Too Soon to "Breathe Easy"

Fed's Lockhart Sees Fragile Credit Conditions in U.S.

Fed's Mishkin Says Fed Wants to Contain Inflation Expectations

Fed's Plosser Calls Inflation Threat "Serious" and "An Insidious Tax on Consumers"

Fed's Plosser Says Central Banks Must Exercise Caution as Lenders of Last Resort

Fed's Rosengren Says Housing Still Adding "Significant Uncertainty" to Economy

Fed's Stern Says Inflation Expectations Based on How Fed Raises Rates

Fed's Warsh Urges Policy Makers to Focus on Inflation

Fed's Yellen Says Current Rates "Appropriate" to Stimulate Growth

Fed's Yellen Says Economic Growth Likely to Be Sluggish in 2008

Fed, FTC Propose New Rules on Lenders

Federal Agencies Issue Final Guidance On Subprime Mortgages

Federal Reserve Conducts $25 Billion TSLF Auction

Federal Reserve Expected To Adopt New Mortgage Regulations

Federal Reserve Makes Three Big Weekend Moves

FHA Head Touts Expansion of FHASecure Program Over Proposed Legislation

FHA Loan Limits Raised By Senate

FHA Reform Moving Right Along

FICO Speeds Rollout of New Product to Meet Lender Demands

First Quarter Vacancy Rates Rise

Fixed-Rate Mortgages Were Pricier Last Week

FOMC Holds Target Rate at 2.00%, Cites Uncertainty in Inflation Outlook

FOMC to Hold Interest Rates at 2.00%, Markets to Focus on Statement

Foreclosure Filing Up 68 Percent Since November 2006 Per RealtyTrac

Foreclosure Freeze to Cover Nearly All Borrowers

Foreclosures Cost Lenders, Homeowners, the Community, and You Big Bucks

Foreclosures Must Be Averted for Sake of Economy

Former Fannie Mae Execs Consent to Multi-Million Dollar Penalties

Former Fed Chairman Greenspan Says Chance Of Recession Still Above 50%

Former Fed Chairman Volcker Says U.S. Undergoing Political and Economic "Shakeup"

Former Fed Official Calls for Abandoning Focus on Core Inflation in Medium-Term

Freddie Mac and MBA See Mortgage Rates Through Different Lenses

Freddie Mac Housing Forecast Sees Slow Recovery

Friday's Events: U.S. Existing Home Sales, Memorial Day Weekend

Friday's Events: Canadian Employment Report, U.S. & Canadian Trade Data

Friday's Events: Core PCE, Chicago PMI

Friday's Events: U.S. & Canadian Employment Reports, Fed-Speak

Friday's Events: U.S. Core PCE, Personal Income and Spending, Cnd IPPI & RPI

Friday's Events: U.S. CPI, Michigan Sentiment; Greenspan Speaks

GAO To Look At Foreclosure Incidence and Causes After Hearings

Global Survey Finds Credit Crunch Defaults Expected to Peak in 2008

Go Green With Your Real Estate Marketing

Government Considering a Fannie Freddie Takeover

Greenspan Says Inflation Not Yet Out of Control

Greenspan Says Recovery Still Months Away

Greenspan Says Turmoil Could Last for Some Time

Groups Call For Forbearance For Troubled Mortgages

Growth Worries Push Mortgage Rates Down

GSE Attempts To Help Mortgage Market Squashed

GSE Portfolio Caps to be Lifted March 1

GSEs May Soon Purchase Jumbo Loans But Other Limits Are Not Budging

GSEs Reported Losses Mean They Are Not the White Knight Some Had Hoped

H.R. 3915: a FRANK Discussion

Higher Jobless Claims Data Indicate Job Market Deterioration, Economists Say

Higher U.S. CPI, FOMC Minutes Lead to Greater Chance of Rate Hike

Home Builder Confidence Is Down And Permitting Appears To Reflect It

Home Builders: Credit Crunch Is Hurting Business

Home Buyer Survey Ranks Features That Are Important To Buyers

Home Equity Hits New Low

Home Equity Still Being Pulled Despite Soft Housing Market

Home Fire Sprinklers - A Great Idea That Has Not Happened Yet

Home Price Appreciation Slowing But Has Not Stopped

Home Prices Continue 5-Month Decline According to New Report

Home Prices Hold Their Own As Existing Home Sales Fall

Home Prices Remain Fairly Stable as New Home Sales Drop

Home Prices Rose 0.6% in February, OFHEO Reports

Home Prices Show Positive Growth But Slowest In Ten Years

Home Prices Slide in February

Homeowners Insurance Industry Roasted By PBS, Bloomberg

HomeSaver Advance is the Latest Program to Assist Delinquent Homeowners

Hope Now Alliance Reports Progress in Helping Homeowners

Hope Now's Successes May be Over Rated

House Committee Aproves FHA "Short Pay" Loans

House Committee Votes On Another Bit of Foreclosure Relief

House Passes Second Half of Housing Rescue Plan Despite Veto Threat

House Swaps - Not Just for Vacationers Anymore?

Housing and Credit Woes Continue to Weigh on Wall Street

Housing at Heart of Recession Fears

Housing Decline Poses Significant Risk To Economy

Housing News Turns The Stock Market To Mush

Housing Permits and Starts Drop Sharply In December

Housing Recovery May Be Held Back By Oversupply

Housing Slump May Affect More Banks, Says Rosengren

Housing Starts and Builder Confidence Surveys Released

Housing Starts Hit 12-Year Low

Housing Starts Hit Ten Year Low While Builder Confidence Sets Even A Longer Record

Housing Starts Slip and Builders Still Glum

Housing Starts Take a Small but Encouraging Jump in April

Housing Starts, Permits Fall Again But Builder Confidence Stabilizes

Housing Starts? Hold the Applause!

How Long Will That Furnace Last? NAHB Study Has The Answer

HR 3915 - Getting Warmer

HR 3915 Addresses Many Aspects of Predatory and Other Mortgage Lending

HR9315 Passes To Full House For Consideration

HUD Introduces New Good Faith Estimate and Proposes Other Changes to RESPA

HUD Secretary to Resign

Huge Changes May be Coming for Lenders and

Hurricane Coverage May Also Fall Victim to Credit Crunch

Increase in U.S. Pending Home Sales Related to Foreclosures, Economist Says

Increased Loan Limts May Be Included In House Bill

Industrial Production Consistent with Recessionary Levels, Economists Say

IndyMac Faces Bank "Run"

IndyMac Joins Roster of Banks to Fold its Mortgage "Tent."

IndyMac To Resume Prime Jumbo Home Loans

Inflation Concerns Rise Among U.S. Small Business Owners in June

Inflation Fears Cast Shadow on Mortgage Rates and Applications Decline

Interest Rates Still Moving Within a Narrow Range; Applications Down

Investment Banks Need to Be Regulated

Is Any Company Safe from Subprime Related Lawsuits?

Is Virtual Real Estate More Than An Oxymoron?

ISM Manufacturing Halts Four Months of Declines, Rebounds to 50.2

Job Report Fuels Mortgage Rate Increases Across The Board

Jump in Mortgage Foreclosures is "Urgent Problem"

June All-Items PPI Soars 1.8%, Core Contained at 0.2%

Just One Little House, but a Good Indicator of Foreclosed Properties Nationwide

Kansas Fed's Hoenig Concerned Inflation May Prompt Interest Rate Hike

Keeping Them Honest - Comparing 2007 Forecasts With Reality

Lehman Brothers CFO and COO Resign With Stock Down 32% in a Week

Lehman Brothers Shuts Down BNC Mortgage Cutting 1200 Jobs

Lehman Brothers Stock Sale Sends Market Surging; UBS Still Writing Down

Lenders Facing Another Wave of Write-Offs

Lenders Facing Repurchase Demands from Investors

Lenders, Feds Finally Paying Attention to Mortgage Crunch

Lending Survey Indicates Tightened Standards, Lower Demand

Lennar and D.R. Horton Move To Staunch Housing Hemmorage

Local MLS shuts down Redfin house review feature but other sites are still sponsoring them. In the meantime the CBS/NAR squabble goes a few more rounds.

Long Term Mortgage Rates Continue To Fall

Long-Term Interest Rates Hit Highest Point since Last October

Major Homebuilder Runs Successful Weekend Sale

Major Real Estate Corp Sees Marketing Possibilities In Virtual World

Many Mortgage Delinquents Still Unaware There Is Help

Margin Calls Threaten Two Mortgage Companies/Investors

Market Recovery to Take Time, Says Fed's Warsh

Massive Financial Regulatory Changes Proposed by Paulson

May PCE Core Deflator Rises Lower-Than-Expected at 0.1%

MBA Advises Against Broadening Fraud Laws

MBA Delinquency Data Not As Dire As RealtyTrac Reports

MBA Mortgage Applications Climbs 2.9%

MBA Mortgage Applications Decline in Week Ending June 13

MBA Mortgage Applications Fall in Week Ending June 6

MBA Mortgage Applications Rebound in First Week of April

MBA Proposals For Mortgage Fraud Legislation

MBA Says Home Construction Loan Delinquency Rate Misleading

MBA Touts Role in Helping Mortgage Borrowers

MBA Weekly U.S. Mortgage Applications Bounce Up 15.6%

MBIA Reports Record Losses While Connecticut Investigates

Meeting Minutes Say FOMC Doesn't Want to Ease Even if U.S. Growth Slows

Meeting Minutes Say FOMC to Maintain Discount Rate to Slow Inflation

Merrill Lynch and WaMu Suffer From Subprime Woes

Merrill Lynch Losses Near Top of Analysts Estimates

Merrill Lynch Reports First-Quarter Loss, Planned Job Cuts

MICA Reports Continued Problems for U.S. Homeowners

Monday's Events: Lehman, Cnd New Vehicle Sales, Empire Mfg Index, Fed's Bernanke

Moody's Puts Ambac and MBIA on Review for Ratings Downgrade

More Action RE: Subprime Lending and Mortgage Regulation

More Help Now Available For Those Facing Foreclosure

More Rate Cuts Could Be Necessary from the Fed, Says IMF

Morgan Stanley Latest to Accept Foreign Aid

Mortgage 'Rates" Continue To Inch Down With One Glaring Exception

Mortgage Applications Surge Into New Year

Mortgage Delinquency Rate Hits 29-Year High in First Quarter

Mortgage Fraudsters Finding Ways To Exploit Bubble Bust

Mortgage Market Disruptions Short-Lived According To NAR

Mortgage Mess is Apparently Ready to Claim Two More Victims

Mortgage Payments And Credit Cards - Two Examples Of Creative Thinking

Mortgage Rates and Applications Remain Relatively Flat

Mortgage Rates and the Fed - Get it Straight !

Mortgage Rates are Drifting and Applications Trend Down

Mortgage Rates at 2.5 Year Low

Mortgage Rates Back To May 2007 Levels

Mortgage Rates Back Up to January Levels

Mortgage Rates Boosted By Solid Jobs Report - Construction Jobs Suffer

Mortgage Rates Climb For Third Straight Week

Mortgage Rates Continue Pattern of Last Few Weeks - Little Movement

Mortgage Rates Continue to Set New 2008 Records, Applications Fall

Mortgage Rates Continue Upward Spiral

Mortgage Rates Curbed By Housing Recession

Mortgage Rates Decline but One Year ARM Rates Go Off the Chart

Mortgage Rates Drift During Most Recent Survey Week

Mortgage Rates Drop Along With Inflation Fears

Mortgage Rates Ease for Fourth Straight Week

Mortgage Rates Eased By Weakening Housing Demand

Mortgage Rates Generally Ease as Housing Stats Worsen

Mortgage Rates Inch Downward

Mortgage Rates Increase Despite Job Figures

Mortgage Rates Lower on CPI, Retail Sales Data

Mortgage Rates Mark Time Waiting for Federal Action

Mortgage Rates Mixed - Very Mixed - in Last Week's Reports

Mortgage Rates Mixed But Application Volume Remains Steady

Mortgage Rates Mixed in Freddie Mac, MBA Weekly Surveys

Mortgage Rates Mixed While Applications Slow

Mortgage Rates Move In Different Directions

Mortgage Rates Move In Opposite Directions on Surveys

Mortgage Rates Move Up On Inflation Worries

Mortgage Rates Not Far From Where They Started 2007

Mortgage Rates Plummet While Applications and Refinancing Increase

Mortgage Rates Reclaim Last Week's Declines

Mortgage Rates Relatively Static While Application Volume Continues Down

Mortgage Rates Remain Relatively Stable, Again

Mortgage Rates Rise While Application Activity Plummets

Mortgage Rates Roll Back From 2007 Highs

Mortgage Rates Steady Among Mixed Economic News

Mortgage Rates Still Falling Hitting Four Year Low

Mortgage Rates Surge While Applications and Refinancing Weak

Mortgage Rates Virtually Unchanged From Previous Week

Mortgage Regulatory System Now Operational

Mortgage Servicers Encouraged To Help Homeowners

Mortgages Rates, Loan Applications Remain Mostly in Doldrums

Most Mortgage Rates Increase During Wild Week in Financial Markets

Most Mortgage Rates were Stagnant While Application Volume Increased

NAACP Subprime Discrimination Suit

NAHB Builder Confidence Reaches New Historic Low at 16

NAHB Calls for Secondary Market for Construction Loans

NAHB Green Building Legislation Offers Incentives to Lenders

NAHB Housing Market Index Unchanged From March and February

NAHB Puts its Economic Stimulus Ideas in Front of the Senate

NAHB Urges Mix of Housing Measures To Stimulate Economy

NAMB, Harvard Professor Dueling Over Op Ed Column

NAR and DOJ Reach 10-Year Settlement of MLS Anti-Trust Suit

NAR Chimes in With an Economic Stimulus Wishlist

NAR Counterpunches After 60 Minute Segment on Discount Agents

NAR Forecast Reveals A Wee Bit Of Gloom

NAR Launches New Public Info Campaign To Counter Slump

NAR Price Survey Shows House Prices Continuing To Increase In Many Areas

NAR Releases Existing Home Sales Figures For September

NAR Report of Existing Home Sales No Surprise To Anyone

National City Job Cuts

Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System Expands to 14 States

New Fannie Mae Program May Benefit 150,000 Homeowners

New Home Sales and Prices Continue Seemingly Endless Decline

New Home Sales Jump In April

New Home Sales Register Improvement Over June

New Home Sales Report More Upbeat Than That For Existing Homes

New Home Sales See Biggest Year Over Year Drop In 37 Years

New Homes Sales Continue to Fall, Down 2.5% in May

New Homes Sales for 2007 Post Record Decline

New Loan Limits Will Impact Few Buyers

New Study Shows Impact of Government Fees On Home Affordability

NHMC and NAA Sue HUD over Language Requirements

No Need for Second Stimulus Package

Nobody Understands Buyer Agency

Not Many Positives Coming Out of Jumbo Market Changes

Nothing Wrong With Buying A Flip As Long As It Is A Good One

NY Attorney General Files Appraiser Fraud Suit Against First American

O'Neal is History and Merrill Lynch is Sued

OFHEO Director Weighs In On Cuomo Probe

OFHEO Home Price Index Down For First Time In 13 Years

OFHEO Lowers Capital Requirements for GSEs to Improve Market Liquidity

OFHEO Says Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Made Considerable Progress

OFHEO U.S. Housing Price Index Posts Largest Quarterly Decline on Record

One Persons Stigma Could Be Anothers Selling Point

Operation Malicious Mortgage Yields 400 Arrests

Paulson Hints at Expansion of Rate Freeze Agenda

Paulson Releases Presidential Working Group Recommendations

Paulson Says Firms Should Be Allowed to Fail

Paulson Says GSEs Need a Strong Regulator

Paulson Says Main Message to G8 Will Be Strong U.S. Economy to Reflect in USD

PBS and Bloomberg Charges Against Insurance Companies Draw Fire

Pending Home Sales Fail to Indicate Housing Bottom

Pending Home Sales Index Points to a Slow Recovery

Pending Home Sales: A Little Good News In A Grim Time

Philadelphia Fed's June Manufacturing Falls to -17.1

Pimco's Gross Warns that Further U.S. Housing Declines Could Be "Ruinous"

Plenty More Subprime Fallout to Come, Says CIBC's Rubin

PMI Insurers May Owe Thanks To Piggy-Back Mortgages

PPI Rises More than Expected, Up 1.1% in March

President Bush Calls for Permanent Tax Cuts

Preview of Wednesday, April 2 2008

Preview: April Existing Home Sales Expected to Decline to 4.85 Million

Preview: Fed's Beige Book to Confirm Broad-Based Softness in Economy

Preview: Further Deterioration Expected in New Home Sales

Preview: Housing Starts Expected to Drop 15k in June

Preview: Inflation Focus at Bernanke's Semi-Annual Testimony, Say Experts

Preview: OFHEO Purchase-Only House Price Index to Decline in February

Price for Bear Stearns Likely to Rise

Pros and Cons of the Various Housing Indicators

Public Intervention Needed to Tackle Credit Crunch

Rate Freeze Faces Many Hurdles

Reader Offers Simple Plan to End Foreclosure Turmoil

Real Estate Investors and Agents Decry Short-Sale Process

Realius - Bringing Joy Back To Real Estate?

RealtyTrac Report Confirms Foreclosures Skyrocketing

Redfin Revisited: A Company To Watch

Renters also May Not Find Decent and Affordable Housing

ResCap To Cut 3,000 Jobs

Results from Piecemeal Housing Plans Leave Doubts About Effectiveness

Rise in Housing Starts Unlikely to Begin a New Trend

S&P Downgrades MBIA and Ambac to Double-A

Schumer Bill Would Lift GSE Portfolio Caps

Second Life Businesses Can Rake In Some Surprising Profits and Participants

Senate ad hoc Committee Hammers out Housing Rescue Bill

Senate Moves To Assist Homeowners On Two Fronts

Senate Nears Accord on its Version of Housing Rescue Bill

Senator Hillary Clinton's Housing Plan

Senator McCain Vows no Politics with Housing Crisis

Senator Obama Lays out Housing Policy

Senator Schumer Seeks Probe of FHLB Loans to Countrywide

September New Home Sales Report is Modestly Upbeat

Sinking Mortgage Company Gets Lifeline from Lenders

Soaring Gas Price Will Push Millions Off the Road, Says CIBC Report

Some FOMC Members Saw Risk of "Prolonged and Severe" Downturn, Minutes Show

Some Good News Regarding Home Sales Comes in NAR Report

Some Mortgage Rates Move Dramatically, Others Stall

St. Louis Fed President Bullard Recommends Holding Off Further Rate Cuts

Still More Troubles for Countrywide

Stockholders Socked as J.P. Morgan Acquires Bear Stearns in Weekend Rescue

Subprime Mess Continues To Wreak Havoc on the Mortgage Market

Subprime Disaster Continues To Unfold

Subprime Fallout Will Cost U.S. Billions

Subprime Lawsuits Already Outpacing S&L Litigation

Subprime Market Mess Update

Subprimes Next Victim: Merrill Lynch CEO

Survey Shows ARMs Diminishing in Appeal

Task Force May Widen Federal and State Investigation into Mortgage Irregularities

Task Force Takes A Look At Identity Theft

The Consumer Spending Problem Wall Street Doesn't See Coming

The Day Ahead: Cdn Retail Sales; U.S. Senator McCain in Ottawa

The Day Ahead: U.S. ISM Report

The Fed Won't Hike at Upcoming Meeting, WSJ and FT Say

The Housing Bust is Over

The Week Ahead: Retail Sales and FOMC Minutes

The Week Ahead: U.S. Housing Sales

Three Banks Move To Loosen Credit Markets

Three Mortgage CEOs Spend a Day on the Congressional Hot Seat

Thursday's Events: BOC MPC Report, U.S. Jobless Claims, Philly Fed Mfg Report

Thursday's Events: BOE, ECB Rates; U.S. Jobless Claims, Fed-Speak, Cdn Ivey PMI

Thursday's Events: Final US Q1 GDP, Initial Jobless Claims, U.S. Existing Home Sales

Thursday's Events: U.S. Jobless Claims

Thursday's Events: U.S. Jobless Claims, Fed's Yellen, ECB's Trichet

Thursday's Events: U.S. Q1 Prelim GDP, Jobless Claims, Top FOMC-Speak

Thursday's Events: UI Claims, Philly Fed Mfg

Total Losses from Mortgage Meltdown Could Reach $945 Billion

Treasury Curve Steepens as Fed Cuts Priced Out

Treasury Department May Broker A Deal For Subprime Borrowers

Treasury Secretary Advocates GSE Assistance for High-End Borrowers

Treasury Secretary Outlines Foreclosure Rescue Plan

Treasury Secretary Paulson Says Economy "Has Turned Down Sharply"

Treasury Undersecretary Steel Sees Good Progress in Economic Recovery, Housing

Treasury's Levey Says Financial Information Critical in Combatting Terrorism

Treasury's Paulson Says Fed's Role Must be as a Stabilizer

Treasury's Paulson Says Fresh Capital Will Strengthen GSEs

Treasury's Paulson Says Goal Is to Back Fannie & Freddie in "Current Form"

Treasury's Paulson Says More Liquidity to Financial Institutions to Come

Treasury's Paulson Sees End in Sight for U.S. Credit Crunch

Treasury's Ryan Says Financial System Should Allow Banks to Fail

Treasury's Steel Says De-Leveraging, Re-Pricing of Risk to Continue

Tuesday Events: U.S. Retail Sales, U.S. Construction Spending, US ISM Index

Tuesday's Events.: Bernanke & Lacker Speak, U.S. Pending Home Sales

Tuesday's Events: Bank of Canada Rate Decision, Trade Data for U.S. & Canada

Tuesday's Events: Bernanke's Semi-Annual Testimony, PPI

Tuesday's Events: Bernanke, Factory Orders

Tuesday's Events: Case-Shiller and OFHEO Home Prices, Rich. Fed Mfg, Alan Greenspan

Tuesday's Events: U.S. PPI, Empire Fed Mfg, NAHB Housing Market Index

Tuesday's Events: U.S. Producer Prices, Fed's Kohn, Cdn Wholesales

Tuesday's Events: U.S. S&P/CS, New Home Sales, Cons Conf; Cdn Emp Insurance

Two Advocacy Groups Express Different Views on FRB Proposals

Two Changes in Tax Code May Benefit Some Homeowners

Two MBA Surveys Paint Picture of Mortgage Market in 2006

Two New Reports Deepen Housing Gloom

Two Senators Appear to be "Friends of Countrywide"

Two Surveys Show Big Rate Moves In Opposite Directions

U. S. Construction Spending Drops Further in May

U.S. Builder Confidence Matches Historic Low at 18

U.S. Construction Spending Falls 0.3% in February

U.S. Construction Spending Falls 1.1% in March

U.S. Consumer Confidence Falls to 16-Year Low

U.S. Consumer Sentiment Falls Further in April

U.S. Existing Home Sales Rise 2.0% to 4.99 Million in May

U.S. Factory Orders Surprise to the Upside, Rise 1.1% in April

U.S. Fed's Beige Book Reports Economic Conditions Weakened Since February

U.S. Fed's Beige Book Says Economy "Generally Weak" With 7 Districts Slowing

U.S. Foreclosure Rates Decline in June, Says Realtytrac

U.S. House Prices Fall 0.8% Month-Over-Month in April, Says OFHEO

U.S. Housing Market Bottom Not Yet in Sight, Say Economists

U.S. Housing Starts and Building Permits Decline in May

U.S. Housing Starts and Building Permits Soar in June

U.S. Initial Claims Rise 17k to 372k, Continuing Claims Gain

U.S. Investment Banks Borrow $10 Billion from Fed Discount Window

U.S. Jobless Claims Down from Spike, but Trend is Still Up, Economists Say

U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to 346K in Week Ending July 5

U.S. Jobless Claims Rise to 366K in Week Ending July 12

U.S. June Core CPI Up 0.3% as Total Inflation Surges 1.1%

U.S. June Nonfarm Payrolls Decline 62k, Unemployment Rate Remains at 5.5%

U.S. Leading Economic Index Rises 0.1% in April

U.S. M1 and M2 Money Supplies Fall in Week Ending April 14

U.S. May Wholesale Inventories Just Above Forecasts

U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentument Rebounds for First Time Since January

U.S. Mortgage Applications Drop 28.7%, Refinances Fall 38.1%

U.S. New Home Sales Rise 3.3% in April after March Revision

U.S. New Homes Sales Plummet 8.5% in March to Lowest Level Since 1991

U.S. Pending Home Sales Fall 4.7% in May

U.S. Personal Spending Report Allows Fed to Pause Rate Cuts, Economists Say

U.S. President Bush Asks Congress to Do More

U.S. Regional Banks Favoured Less Action Prior to Bear Stearns Rescue

U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Shrinks to -$59.8 Billion

U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson Says Fundamentals of Economy Favourable

U.S. Treasury's Paulson Says Housing Remains Biggest Challenge

U.S. Treasury's Ryan Sees Increasing Failed Trades in Treasuries

U.S. Treasury's Steel Calls for More Financial Education

U.S. Treasury's Swagel Says U.S. Economy in Slowdown Not Recession

Unemployment Up to 5.1%

Up In ARMs - The Mortgage Bailout

Upside Surprise to U.S. Retail Sales Fails to Spur Optimism Among Economists

Uptick in Mortgage Rates Not a Result of Subprime Problems

Vacation and Investment Property Sales Strong Despite Market Troubles

Virgin Acquires Majority Stake In Family-Centered Mortgage Company

Wachovia Announces Losses and Capital Acquisition

Wachovia Settles One Suit, Confronts Money Laundering Charges

WaMu Executives Will See Bonuses Protected from Financial Fallout

WaMu Job Cuts and Closings

WaMu Troubles Mount While Fortunes and Stock Tumble

Washington Mutual Announces Major Layoffs and Closings

Washington Post Sources Say Bernanke has no Plans for Rate Hikes

Watters v. Wachoiva - Supreme Court Sides With Fed

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