11 Articles match "2008","Credit","New York"

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• Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
  
  Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. New York, for example, is expected to lose $10.4 Conference of Mayors . Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. percent during the first quarter of 2008, the same rate of increase as tracked for the fourth quarter 2007. One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  In a presidential year, Uncle Sam and politicians nationwide are rushing to unveil new and bolder schemes to unravel the foreclosure crisis. As federal, state and local government weighs in of the rising foreclosure mess, look for new plans to halt the foreclosure train wreck. Lawyers in California — for a fee, of course — will show you how to damage your credit history for a decade or more and “walk away” from your debt. Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
  
  Tight credit conditions, the ongoing housing contraction, and some slowing in export growth are likely to weigh on economic growth over the next few quarters.” rdquo; The New York Times commented today that the decision to keep the key rate where it is clearly demonstrates the Fed’s limited ability to solve a problem involving the nation’s housing and mortgage markets. Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
  
  The latest victim of its own success is New Century Financial Inc. As a result, the lender’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol = NEW) plummeted almost 70 percent. which was being courted for a buyout by Credit Suisse Group, is now being sold to Citadel Investment Group LLC, which won the right to purchase the lending institution for $180 million in a last minute auction, according to Bloomberg News . The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). The problem
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  This move by the Fed is recognition of the fact that further increases in oil prices threaten the economy by pushing up prices in goods and services, according to the New York Times . The ongoing housing contraction, along with stressed financial markets and soft labor markets are key concerns for the Fed, as are tight credit conditions and rising energy costs. The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
  
  Moreover, the intensification of financial market turmoil is likely to exert additional restraint on spending, partly by further reducing the ability of households and businesses to obtain credit.” rdquo; The New York Times reported Wednesday that in a speech delivered the day before to members of the National Association for Business Economics, Bernanke said the economic turmoil has caused the Fed to downgrade its “already-gloomy economic outlook.” In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Thursday, December 18, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  See: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess, The New York Times, Feb. 23, 2008.) Our Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, says “as our economy works through this difficult period, we will look for additional opportunities to try to avoid preventable foreclosures. Theres no shortage of seminars, books and tapes which explain in glowing detail how you too can become rich with real estate, even if you lack experience, cash or credit. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  billion direct line of credit with the U.S. The huge problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were supposed to be resolved with new management and revamped accounting, but no resolution could revolve a basic issue: Private mortgage buyers are always at a disadvantage when competing against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If you believe in free markets and fair competition, the GSEs are a poke in the eye. "As long as Fannie and Freddies debt is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller 
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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