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Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 As has been the case for some time, the housing market continues to be a primary source of weakness in the real economy as well as in the financial markets,” Bernanke said. “However, Anyone want to submit their resume now? Posted 10-10-2008 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.
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. "I Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How to finance your foreclosure purchase? How about your IRA?
Titled " Buying Investment Property Through Your IRA ," the article offers a wealth of information on how to use funds already in your IRA to invest in different types of properties. k) during the 2000 dot-bomb induced stock market implosion, the notion of investing retirement funds in real estate assets is something Im very interested in exploring. If any of you have tried this, If youre looking for creative ways to finance an investment in a foreclosure property, you may not need to look much further than your retirement account. A good article ran today in Lew Sichelmans
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month. Two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested heavily in subprime mortgage securities racked up huge losses last month after they made bad bets on complex securities backed by risky mortgages. The meltdown of the two funds has sent tremors through financial markets, causing investors to reassess their appetite for this type of risk.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans. By 1994, he started his own hedge fund with $2 million and built it into a $500 million nest egg by 2002. In 2006, Paulson started another hedge fund solely to bet against risky mortgages. As the more and You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Environment Not Ripe for Heavy Foreclosure Levels
trade deficit may not be concerns for real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and real estate agents eager to get into the foreclosure business, theyre of major concern to the Federal Reserve, and putting big-time pressure on interest rates. The hikes we’re continuing to see in the Federal Funds Rate should be a point of focus for those interested in dealing in foreclosures. Economics 201 – Inflation In announcing his findings on the condition of the nation’s economy Wednesday, Chapman University President James L. Doti proclaimed that, in his opinion,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 For investors, real estate agents and potential homebuyers looking to RealtyTrac’s radar screen for answers, we will continue to monitor the Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon, and as air currents are changing, pilots are starting to throttle back and slow things down a bit, and distressed homeowners are belted into their seats as they find themselves in for a more bumpy ride in the foreseeable future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True
Organized real estate was begging for it. Bernanke is standing firm to his real world approach for interest rate adjustments. Wednesday Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Open Market Committee agreed unanimously to leave the short-term Federal Funds rate alone for the sixth straight time at 5.25 In its statement released Wednesday , the FOMC changed its Wall Street was fantasizing about it. Industry analysts are still predicting that it’s going to happen, they just don’t know when.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Remains in Hibernation on Interest Rates
On Wednesday the watchdog of federal monetary policy did what many economists expected it to do and hit the snooze button yet again, deciding to keep the short term federal funds rate at its current level of 5.25 The recent actions of the Federal Open Market Committee may seem unresponsive to concerns of industries, like real estate, that believe lowering interest rates will help the industry pull itself up by its bootstraps and reverse the current downward trend. After 17 consecutive meetings of raising interest rates, and a switch over to new leadership under Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve went into hibernation last August and has remained there ever since.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure's Fallout, 2 Titans Tumble
Every time Wall Street executives and economists think they have acknowledged the full extent of the subprime mortgage meltdown in the residential real estate sector, more bad news is uncovered. bond fund PIMCO, believes the subprime crisis as a “$1 trillion problem.” Whatever the grim statistic is, expect more bank-owned foreclosures ahead and more Wall Street titans Last week, Citigroup’s chief executive Charles Prince tendered his resignation — another casualty of the growing subprime fiasco. Prior to Prince’s departure, Citigroup said that it would take additional
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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