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Increase in interest-only mortgages with no repayment vehicle
The FSA has reported an increase in the proportion of interest-only mortgages where the lender was not aware of a dedicated repayment vehicle, even though the regulator is looking to clamp down on this type of lending.
Read more News Source - Money Marketing Online
Publish date - 07:31:54 09/01/10

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Lower Interest Rates Help Car Shoppers Too
Record low interest rates may be boosting mortgage refinancing, but it turns out those low rates can help you lower the monthly payments on your car as well.
Read more News Source - CBS4 Miami
Publish date - 01:18:08 09/02/10

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For-profit college risk: Huge debt, questionable degree
Dane Lockman saw a commercial advertising Westwood College while watching late-night television. The then-29-year-old single father, with a budding interest in web design, decided he would be the first in his immediate family to attend college.
Read more News Source - CNN
Publish date - 13:55:09 09/02/10

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Interest and energy
Issues combined in Amendment 2. by Doug Smith Proposed Amendment 2, which will be submitted to the voters at the general election Nov. 2, would raise the constitutional limit on interest that can be charged by retailers, remove entirely the interest limit on government bonds, and provide a new way for government agencies to finance bonds for energy-efficiency projects. That the amendment seems ...
Read more News Source - Arkansas Times
Publish date - 20:27:07 09/01/10

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Only The Macros Matter
Now is the time to be level-headed. Many stocks are trading at or near intrinsic value like MetLife, Peabody Energy and Goldman Sachs.
Read more News Source - Forbes
Publish date - 14:21:07 09/01/10

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Agreement grants low interest housing loans to judges
BEIRUT: Head of the Lebanese Banks’ Association Joseph Torbey signed on Tuesday an agreement protocol with the president of the judges’ pension fund Abdullatif al-Husseini aimed at providing judiciary members with housing loans in Lebanese Lira at low interest rates that do not exceed 1.628 percent.
Read more News Source - Zawya
Publish date - 05:13:29 09/01/10

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Chilean Interest-Rate Swaps Fall as Peso's August Rally May Curb Inflation
Chilean interest-rate swap rates fell as traders reduced bets on central bank rate increases after the Chilean peso’s outperformance in August dimmed prospects for inflation.
Read more News Source - Bloomberg
Publish date - 20:10:21 08/31/10

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Capping interest rates on high-cost loans may do more harm than good
The public supports a rate cap, but it would be a simplistic measure to a complex problem We all know that the poor pay more for everything but the unresolved question is – what do we do about it? This week's YouGov omnibus survey for Compass appeared to find overwhelming public support for a cap on interest rates as a solution: 68% of respondents believe there should be a lending rate cap to ...
Read more News Source - Guardian Unlimited
Publish date - 14:30:02 09/02/10

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Low Interest Car Loans
It is an economic cycle that is difficult to break. More of us are living paycheck to paycheck where one financial setback can have catastrophic consequences.
Read more News Source - WOWT Omaha
Publish date - 20:04:49 09/01/10

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SCF 'bad' loans may rise
Speculation is rife that the $700 million of "bad bank" loans of failed South Canterbury Finance - now owned by the Government - may climb higher, adding to projected taxpayer losses. read more
Read more News Source - Otago Daily Times
Publish date - 17:11:30 09/01/10

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Can microfinance be both moral and profitable?
There's a debate brewing in the world of do-gooder banking, pitting the father of microfinance Muhammad Yunus against a few entrepreneurs who have put an unlikely spin on Yunus' model of lending to the poor.
Read more News Source - CNN Money
Publish date - 15:21:28 09/02/10

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Why Our ‘Lost Decade’ May Only Last 5 Years
Economists are struggling to explain why the recovery is petering out.
Read more News Source - US News & World Report
Publish date - 15:31:30 09/02/10

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Bank of Japan's additional easing measures disappoint
The Bank of Japan eased its monetary policy at an emergency meeting Monday morning, in an effort to curb the yen's strength and lift the country's struggling economy -- though the move was not enough to satisfy investors.
Read more News Source - CNN Money
Publish date - 15:22:48 09/02/10

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BOJ's New Lending Scheme Sees 47 Banks Make 1342 Loans
BOJ's New Lending Scheme Sees 47 Banks Make 1342 Loans
Read more News Source - FOX Business
Publish date - 11:36:42 09/01/10

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New coalition fights payday loans
A number of social policy groups have joined forces in a campaign to put limits on payday lending in Texas.
Read more News Source - Waco Tribune-Herald
Publish date - 05:12:53 09/02/10

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