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  • Top things to know

    CNN Money - Then calculate how much you must save to supplement Social Security and other sources of retirement income. 3. A 401(k) is one ... to an area with lower living expenses, or transforming the equity in your home into income by taking out a reverse mortgage.
    2008-03-05 04:07:00
  • Newalta Income Fund announces results for the fourth quarter and year ...

    CNW Group - TSX Trading Symbol: NAL.UN CALGARY, March 5 /CNW/ - Newalta Income Fund ("Newalta" or the "Fund") today announced financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2007. "Our performance in 2007 was consistent with weaker natural gas ...
    2008-03-05 10:04:00
  • One family, two portfolios

    CNN Money - ... for your paychecks to go into a joint checking account that you use to pay for household expenses, such as the mortgage and ... like moneycenter.yodlee.com to aggregate your accounts and allow both you and your partner to track spending, calculate your ...
    2008-03-04 03:53:00
  • A wish list for economic statistics?

    BusinessWeek - A way to calculate the costs of production on the environment. In a similar vein, a way to measure the true cost of the use ... 1) Really good house price statistics that don't depend on a particular type (or any) mortgage.
    2008-03-06 01:21:00
  • A freeze to keep lenders at bay?

    Minneapolis Star Tribune - The measure (HF3612, SF3396) would allow homeowners with subprime loans to pay roughly 65 percent of their monthly mortgage ... If you buy more than you can afford, you have to calculate the risk. I'm not sure government can be your savior every time.
    2008-03-06 07:37:00
  • Housing, Bank Troubles Deepen

    Wall Street Journal - ... starting the housing market by raising the cap on the size of mortgages that can be bought by government-sponsored mortgage ... To calculate the sales prices, the FHA used government and commercial data for metropolitan statistical areas and regions ...
    2008-03-07 07:29:00
  • ALL BUSINESS: CEO pay rise shenanigans

    Boston Globe - Despite being hard hit by the housing and mortgage slump, some companies -- including Washington Mutual Inc. and Toll ... Yet things might not stay sour for Toll for long; the board's compensation committee signed off on a new way to calculate his ...
    2008-03-07 01:12:00
  • The $5 Silver Blow-Off Is Now (GoldSeek.com)

    It has been widely reported that the United States housing market fell by 8.9% in 2007. As we will explore in this article – when we include inflation, the real decline in single-family home values was 50% higher than reported . For 2007 was not just the worst year for housing in the 20 year history of the S&P/Schiller index, but the worst year for inflation in 17 years.
    2008-03-06 01:46:52
  • Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. Reports First Quarter of 2008 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

    GREENWICH, Conn.----Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. , a real estate investment trust, today reported its results for the first quarter ended January 31, 2008.
    2008-03-07 08:06:00
  • ALL BUSINESS: CEO Pay Rise Shenanigans (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

    Financial company CEOs often talk about needing better incentives to perform.
    2008-03-07 10:00:00
  • Boards Change Rules To Keep Big Exec Bonuses (NBC 5 Chicago)

    Financial company CEOs often talk about needing better incentives to perform. How about this one: You're lucky to have a job when many of your peers don't.
    2008-03-07 04:45:43
  • World Markets See-Saw As Dollar Hits Record Low And Oil Prices Soar

    Free Internet Press - Federal Reserve step into money markets in a bid to try to prevent the sub-prime mortgage crisis sparking off a new ... on the fact that the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, is expected to cut another half a point off its key interest rate ...
    2008-03-07 09:26:00
  • Japanese government bonds close mixed ahead of BoJ rate policy, US ...

    Forbes - ... the BoJ's two-day policy meeting, starting this afternoon, with the central bank largely expected to hold its key interest rate ... On Wednesday Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda reassured markets that there will be no vacancy at the helm of the BoJ even as a ...
    2008-03-05 11:37:00
  • Defaults spook investors, global stocks tumble

    Reuters - ... statements raised concerns over a widening trans-Atlantic interest rate gap. A steady flow of chilling news and speculation, including talk that UBS (UBSN.VX: Quote , Profile , Research ) was trying to offload $24 billion of less-than-prime mortgages ...
    2008-03-06 10:07:00
  • Fitch: February U.S. Auto ABS Performance in Line with Expectations

    Forbes - Prime and subprime 60+ days or more delinquencies exhibited improvements in ... February's delinquency rate was 40% higher than in the same period in 2007. ... Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall ...
    2008-03-06 10:36:00