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By Press Release |
September 14, 2012
Speaking at the American Banker Regulatory Symposium, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller reflected on what the country experienced as it went through the 2008 financial crisis and how it is emerging from it now.
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By Susanne Walker and Anchalee Worrachate, Bloomberg |
September 13, 2012
Treasuries rose, snapping a two-day decline, as economists said the Federal Reserve will announce today a third round of bond purchases known as quantitative easing to spur economic growth.
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By Clea Benson, Bloomberg |
September 11, 2012
The U.S. overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... laid out new rules designed to spur lending and ease the housing crunch.
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By Christine Harper and Hugh Son, Bloomberg |
September 4, 2012
Shareholders of Wall Street banks who agree with former Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sanford “Sandy” Weill that the companies should be broken up face an obstacle: Bondholders.
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By Daniel Kruger, Bloomberg |
July 30, 2012
For all the handwringing over the slowdown in the U.S. economy, the bond market shows there’s less risk of deflation now than before the Federal Reserve’s first two rounds of large-scale debt purchases.
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By Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg |
July 24, 2012
Home values posted their first year- over-year increase since 2007 in the second quarter as the U.S. property market began to lift off a bottom, Zillow Inc. said.
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By Press Release |
July 18, 2012
The contracts are designed to allow traders to hedge interest rate exposure using a transaction-based index.
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By Hugh Son, Bloomberg |
July 18, 2012
Bank of America Corp., shaking off some of the drag caused by faulty mortgages, swung to a second- quarter profit as real estate-unit losses narrowed and the company set aside less money for bad loans.
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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
July 3, 2012
For Mike and Kathryn Fry, the time was right to take advantage of the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates to buy a home.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Bloomberg |
June 19, 2012
Builders in the U.S. broke ground on fewer homes than forecast in May as a slump in the construction of apartments swamped a pickup in single-family houses.