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  • Key facts about filing your 2007 income tax return - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Key facts about filing your 2007 income tax returnSt. Louis Post-Dispatch,  United States - 43 minutes ago•Deduction for mortgage insurance premiums on home acquisition debt that was new or refinanced in 2007. Only taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of ...
    2008-02-10 01:16:32
  • Sunday Letters to the Press - Asbury Park Press

    Sunday Letters to the PressAsbury Park Press, NJ - 31 minutes agoLarge companies will have to increase their workforce 5 to 10 percent to make up for the increased worker absenteeism that will occur. ...
    2008-02-10 01:28:30
  • New proposal would solve school funding woes - Lansing State Journal

    New proposal would solve school funding woesLansing State Journal, MI - 30 minutes ago... market," sounds pretty tame...that is, unless you just got a note from your friendly mortgage company saying your house is about to be repossessed. ...
    2008-02-10 01:30:06
  • Fallout from the US downturn - Toronto Star

    Fallout from the US downturnToronto Star,  Canada - 28 minutes ago... Zurich, Paris and London discovered they had subprime-mortgage portfolios on which they would have to take multibillion-dollar writedowns. ...
    2008-02-10 01:32:19
  • Another bad week for NJ stocks - Asbury Park Press

    Another bad week for NJ stocksAsbury Park Press, NJ - 23 minutes agoPrudential Financial shares slid on Thursday after the company reported a 16 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit. Losses from mortgage-related investments ...
    2008-02-10 01:37:09
  • Boomers drive sales of timber-framed dwellings, making it a ... - Toledo Blade

    Boomers drive sales of timber-framed dwellings, making it a ...Toledo Blade, OH - 17 minutes ago"We're not being as affected by the mortgage problems and the economy," said Justin Bush, president of the 250-member Timber Frame Business Council. ...
    2008-02-10 01:42:26
  • Magellan's manager moves into health care and energy (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

    Harry W. Lange, manager of the $40 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, sold financial and technology stocks in December and bought health-care and energy companies as a slowing U.S. economy threatened corporate earnings.
    2008-02-10 01:17:36
  • Reminders & suggestions (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

    For 2007 income taxes, it's the little things that count. Small deductions here, a credit there, a bit of help for homeowners caught in the mortgage crisis - all add up to tax savings for savvy filers.
    2008-02-10 01:17:56
  • High yields guarantee greater risk (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

    Conservative investors are becoming tangled in the lifeline the Federal Reserve threw to the economy. To try to prevent a recession, Fed policymakers have been cutting interest rates. The goal is to make it easier for businesses and consumers to borrow money so they will spend and help businesses profit, keeping employees in their jobs.
    2008-02-10 01:18:36
  • 'Jumbo' loan hike may not stem housing decline (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

    A congressional plan to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac insure larger mortgages may not be enough to reverse the U.S. housing market slide, said Nishu Sood, a homebuilding analyst with Deutsche Bank Securities.
    2008-02-10 01:33:30
  • Fallout from the U.S. downturn (Toronto Star)

    Until late last year, it was plausible to argue that Canada would sail through 2008 relatively unscathed by a worsening U.S. economic downturn that began with last summer’s credit-market crunch.
    2008-02-10 01:36:01
  • Financial holdings weigh on Davis fund (Orlando Sentinel)

    Question: What are your thoughts on Davis New York Venture Fund, which hasn't done well at all for me?
    2008-02-10 01:38:30
  • Boomers drive sales of timber-framed dwellings, making it a downturn-resistant niche (The Toledo Blade)

    WHEN JOHN ALBRING pictured the house where he would spend his retirement, the image was clear.
    2008-02-10 01:45:48
  • Another bad week for N.J. stocks (Asbury Park Press)

    Poor performance of New Jersey stocks on Wall Street last week hit the Asbury Park Press/Bloomberg 75 Index, pushing it down nearly 6 percent.
    2008-02-10 01:51:21
  • WILL YURMAN staff photographer

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage buyers whose financing underpins the market, are looking for a credit score of at ... The first-time home buyers spark the market," said broker Nunzio Salafia of ReMax Plus in Brighton. "If you don't have the ...
    2008-02-09 11:53:00