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Obama Student Loan Overhaul Endangered
With Democratic Congressional leaders and the White House struggling on Wednesday to finalize the details of major health care legislation, House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent another of President Obama's top legislative priorities - an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs - from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.
Read more News Source - The Huffington Post
Publish date - 19:43:08 03/11/10

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Home loan demand nudges higher in latest week
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage applications nudged higher last week, reflecting increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates trekked higher, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 21:37:04 03/11/10

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Discover Financial Services Announces Actions to Further Enhance Loan Loss Reserve
RIVERWOODS, Ill.----Discover Financial Services today announced that the company will record an increase in reserves of $305 million pre-tax in the first quarter 2010, which brings its reserve coverage to approximately twelve months of losses.
Read more News Source - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Publish date - 22:57:03 03/11/10

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CIMB: Rate hike won't hurt lending target
CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, which will raise its base lending rate (BLR) by 25 basis points today following the central bank's move last week, does not see the increase dampening loan demand this year.
Read more News Source - Business Times (Malaysia)
Publish date - 18:24:00 03/08/10

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Bollard Says N.Z. to Keep Rate Steady Until Mid Year (Update1)
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand’s central bank said it will wait until the middle of the year before raising interest rates as falling house prices and weak consumer spending are contributing to a slow economic recovery.
Read more News Source - Bloomberg
Publish date - 20:43:37 03/10/10

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US-BUSINESS Summary
Asia stocks dip on China tightening fears, yen up SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks fell on Thursday as investors worried strong loan growth and quickening inflation in China would spur Beijing to tighten monetary policy sooner than expected, while the yen rebounded against major currencies....
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 22:39:09 03/11/10

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Asia stocks dip on China tightening fears, yen up
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks fell on Thursday as investors worried strong loan growth and quickening inflation in China would spur Beijing to tighten monetary policy sooner than expected, while the yen rebounded against major currencies.
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 21:40:05 03/11/10

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CIMB: Rate hike won't hurt lending target
CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, which will raise its base lending rate (BLR) by 25 basis points today following the central bank's move last week, does not see the increase dampening loan demand this year. Lenders, including CIMB, Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) and RHB Bank Bhd, have raised their lending rates from 5.55 per cent to 5.8 per cent effective today, after Bank Negara Malaysia increased the ...
Read more News Source - Business Times (Malaysia)
Publish date - 16:59:07 03/08/10

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NewsWatch: China data point to 'overheating' economy
New Chinese data show faster-than-expected inflation, still-torrid loan growth and heavy capital investment, renewing concerns the economy may be growing too fast and suggesting emergency stimulus measures may be withdrawn early.
Read more News Source - Market Watch
Publish date - 14:16:04 03/11/10

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Personal savings present savvy loan option
Before you start house-hunting, you need to figure out how much you can afford to borrow. Part of those discussions with the bank will involve the structure a mortgage might take.One of the more innovative is the Bank of New Zealand's...
Read more News Source - The New Zealand Herald
Publish date - 20:22:45 03/08/10

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Reid's wife, daughter in car crash
They are both being treated at a hospital after a serious accident on I-95 in Fairfax County, Va.
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 23:28:39 03/11/10

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Leadfusion Announces Alert Email
SAN DIEGO----Leadfusion announces Alert Email, a new product that expands on popular consumer finance functionality with an out-of-the box solution for next generation rate alerts. Unlike previous rate alert solutions, Alert Email moves beyond fulfilling consumer loan rate requests to provide ongoing communication of both loan and deposit rates to in-market consumers.
Read more News Source - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
Publish date - 12:03:17 03/10/10

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Northern Rock shrinks losses, arrears rise
LONDON (Reuters) - State-owned Northern Rock shrank its losses in 2009, helped by a lower bad debt charge in the second half as house prices stabilized, but arrears rose and the lender warned loan impairments would stay high in 2010.
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 17:33:44 03/11/10

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Talking Money: Now’s the time to prepare for rising interest rates
If you have a variable-rate credit card, or an adjustable-rate mortgage, or a savings account, you’ve likely noticed that throughout this recession, your interest rates have gone down—in some cases, by quite a bit. That’s a good thing when it comes to the money you borrow, but a bad thing when it comes to the money you save. Even the best savings accounts aren’t paying much more than 1 percent ...
Read more News Source - Richmond Times-Dispatch
Publish date - 20:36:47 03/11/10

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Mortgage rates remain below 5 percent
WASHINGTON -- Mortgage rates held below the 5 percent threshold for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, weeks before a government program that has been keeping rates low is scheduled to expire.
Read more News Source - Washington Post
Publish date - 21:40:44 03/11/10

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