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Mortgage approval made easy (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Home lenders are picky and demanding when it comes to loan approvals. Here's how to make the best impression. Opening the tap on home equity (Austin American-Statesman)
Borrow before credit line is frozen, some suggest. Many homeowners who have taken out home equity lines of credit have learned in recent months that these loans are not as useful as they initially seemed. Rate drops are of little help to many in California (Los Angeles Times)
They've fallen to about 5.5%, but restrictions on Fannie and Freddie leave those with jumbo loans or who owe more than their homes' values to face much higher costs. Home loan rates are near their lows for the year, reflecting optimism over government efforts to help the housing markets, but analysts see little help for the worst-off borrowers and people with jumbo mortgages.
Dragon's cut bests its new boss (Sydney Morning Herald)
ST GEORGE BANK'S freedom of operation under its new owner Westpac has amounted to a $9-a-month benefit to home-owners after it cut its home loan rates yesterday by slightly more than its parent, following the Reserve Bank's full one percentage point reduction this week. Crisis is real in Eastern Panhandle (The Herald-Mail)
Dozens of people experiencing a financial crisis in the Eastern Panhandle have been denied emergency assistance from a program that apparently is operating on income eligibility standards set in 1984. Public informed of policy issues (The Martinsburg Journal)
MARTINSBURG - Community leaders and government officials gathered early Wednesday morning to hear about everything from local health initiatives for people who can't afford dental care to programs that are trying to help families with pressing financial needs. FA Cup round-up: Leicester are through but Droylsden are denied by fog (Daily Mail)
Droylsden manager-chairman Dave Pace was furious after his side's dream of reaching the third round was cut short by thick fog. The tie was abandoned at half-time Credit market leads to 128 layoffsby timeshare company (Wisconsin Dells Events)
The vice president of a company eliminating 128 Dells and Sauk County area jobs says the country's credit market crisis led to the layoffs."Like most households and most companies in this country, we relied on financing to run our business," said Michael Kaminer, vice president and assistant general counsel for Bluegreen Corporation, a Florida-based vacation home company. "It was prudent we make ...
BPI Energy Retains New Counsel for Pending Drummond Litigation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CLEVELAND----BPI Energy Holdings, Inc. , an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, production and commercial sale of coalbed methane in the Illinois Basin, today announced that it has retained the law firms of Bolen Robinson and Ellis, LLP of Decatur, Ill., and Holland, Groves, Schneller & Stolze, LLC of St. Fitch Rates Illinois Finance Authority $50MM Revs Ser 2008A (Rush University Med Center) 'AA-/F1+' (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-/F1+' rating to the $50,000,000 Illinois Finance Authority variable rate demand revenue bonds series 2008A . The rating is based on the support provided by an irrevocable direct-pay letter of credit issued by The Northern Trust Company , securing the bonds. Economy doesn't ruffle his feathers (Beloit Daily News)
SHOPIERE - “People bring me their chickens and I bring them back so they can eat them.” In a world of prowling vegetarians, that's the best way Brian Lutzow knows how to describe running a Twin Cities Pack, Inc., 5607 East County Highway J, a slaughterhouse for pheasants, chickens and turkeys.
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