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  • Your views: The boiling point - Florida Today

    Your views: The boiling pointFlorida Today, FL - 2 hours agoThe insurance rates are really getting out of hand. When I mortgaged my house in 1974, I was paying Allstate Insurance only $600 per year for homeowners ...
    2008-02-15 10:23:21
  • Ferry Good Chance To Buy A Pad In The City - Glasgow Daily Record

    Ferry Good Chance To Buy A Pad In The CityGlasgow Daily Record, UK - 2 hours ago... a year - offering to pay mortgage payments, utility bills, council tax plus building and contents insurance premiums throughout their East coast sites. ...
    2008-02-15 10:25:55
  • Market still facing headwinds from credit, economy - MarketWatch

    Market still facing headwinds from credit, economyMarketWatch - 2 hours agoA close eye will also be paid to action in the bond-insurance market, after New York Governor Eliot Spitzer warned Thursday that bond insurers have to move ...
    2008-02-15 10:33:38
  • Fed chief Bernanke: Economic outlook has worsened - Daytona Beach News-Journal

    Fed chief Bernanke: Economic outlook has worsenedDaytona Beach News-Journal, FL - 57 minutes ago"The virtual shutdown of the subprime mortgage market and a widening of spreads on jumbo mortgage loans have further reduced the demand for housing, ...
    2008-02-15 11:49:24
  • Insurer Radian loses $618M - Philadelphia Inquirer

    Insurer Radian loses $618MPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 40 minutes agoClaims paid for mortgage defaults more than doubled in the quarter to $164.67 million from $81.14 million in the 2006 quarter. The increase included prime ...
    2008-02-16 12:06:10
  • The title insurance trap - Marketplace

    The title insurance trapMarketplace, CA - 38 minutes agoWilson: Title insurance is a product that is designed to protect home buyers and mortgage lenders in case there is a problem or dispute over ownership of ...
    2008-02-16 12:08:16
  • Briefly... CITY/REGION - Philadelphia Daily News

    Briefly... CITY/REGIONPhiladelphia Daily News, PA - 35 minutes agoSA Ibrahim, Radian's chief executive, said the Philadelphia firm has increased its mortgage insurance loss reserves to $1.3 billion, since the company is on ...
    2008-02-16 12:11:00
  • Struggling bond insurer seeks split - Seattle Times

    Struggling bond insurer seeks splitSeattle Times, United States - 32 minutes agoThe move would separate the unit that guarantees subprime-mortgage bonds, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and the other types of financial products ...
    2008-02-16 12:14:28
  • Startup: Vital signs of a young regional company - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

    Startup: Vital signs of a young regional companyThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 28 minutes agoThe product: Private and insurance investigation, including missing persons, surveillance and pre-employment background checks. Price: Based on contract; ...
    2008-02-16 12:18:05
  • Canadian equities up, Wall Street finishes flat - Vancouver Sun

    Canadian equities up, Wall Street finishes flatVancouver Sun,  Canada - 5 minutes ago... respectable gains, as energy and mining stocks followed commodity prices upward, making up for losses in banking, insurance, and telecommunications. ...
    2008-02-16 12:41:10
  • Startup: Vital signs of a young regional company (The Oregonian)

    Northwest Investigations & Consulting 12180 S.E. Henderson Drive, Portland Formed in June 2007 The product: Private and insurance investigation, including missing persons, surveillance and pre-employment background checks.
    2008-02-16 12:04:51
  • Look out below if long rates go higher (Los Angeles Times)

    It was easy for many small investors to ignore the credit markets' woes a few months ago, when the crisis was centered in high-risk mortgages owned by big-money investors.
    2008-02-16 12:07:16
  • Public records for Feb. 16, 2008 (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

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    2008-02-16 12:07:40
  • FGIC expected to split operations (El Paso Times)

    ALBANY, N.Y.—New York regulators are eager to consider splitting Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.'s core bond insurance businesses to protect municipal credit ratings against costly downgrades and stem troubles in the debt markets.
    2008-02-16 12:10:25
  • Struggling bond insurer seeks split (Seattle Times)

    FGIC, the bond insurer stripped of its AAA ranking by Moody's Investors Service on Thursday, asked to be split in two to protect the ratings...
    2008-02-16 12:22:00