6 Articles match "Government","Maine","Number"

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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  While it is unlikely to bring down the savvy Wall Street firm, the firm may become a potential target for government regulators, class-action lawsuits and expose the investment bank to a hostile takeover. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. Ironically, 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
  
  Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what will prove to
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  residents from Texas to Maine. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so great as to generate real concern for the oncoming hurricane season this year. As opposed to the hurricanes causing the foreclosures, this time around the foreclosures already exist, and in much greater numbers than back in 2005. The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  Wall Street analysts, main street investors, corporate executives and government bureaucrats all disagree on which mortgage company will be the next to trip and fall into bankruptcy. Now, however, with prices declining and interest rates rising a growing number of Americans can’t make the payments on their mortgages, triggering a rise in delinquencies and defaults. Given the fragile A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. But they all agree on one thing
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  And homeowners from California to Maine were left wishing they had a way to close the floodgates, stopping foreclosure of their homes immediately. And this has local, state and national government officials concerned and non-profit consumer groups up in arms. million foreclosure filings predicted by RealtyTrac for 2007, the floodgates are open once again, just not as wide as they were in the early 1990s, and with a finite number Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little Of course, the difference now is that lenders and government entities are aware of these coming waves and are bracing for them. Depending on how far the lenders and government are willing to bend backwards for bad loans and irresponsible homebuyers, we could see a mitigating effect from all these efforts. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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