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Mortgage lenders offer home owners financial flexibility - Temple Daily Telegram
If all the confusion surrounding the mortgage mess makes you want to curl up on the couch and write a check for another month’s rent, don’t despair. In the journey to home ownership, a good place to start is choosing who will hold your hand ...
2008-06-02 09:05:00 -
Direct Group makes acquisition - Insurancetimes.co.uk
Direct Group, a business process outsourcing provider, has acquired Millennium Insurance, a Midlands-based provider of general insurance solutions to the mortgage broker and IFA market. The acquisition price was not disclosed. Derek Coles, chief ...
2008-06-03 01:44:00 -
Women's advocate helped promote financial literacy - Herald Tribune
Women who did not know how to manage their household finances or whether they could afford to buy a home found a friend in Carson Keown. The 66-year-old mortgage broker and community volunteer, who died May 23 of pulmonary disease, counseled women ...
2008-06-03 01:22:00 -
Outlook darkens for Brightside (ShareCast)
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Brightside, a company that advises people suffering from heavy debts and bankruptcy, saw its shares slide by more than 30% after tightening credit markets resulted in it having a ‘disappointing’ year.
2008-06-03 04:35:40 -
Obituaries (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Louis Acosta May 27, 2008 Louis "Papo" Acosta, 65, of Honolulu, a retired truck driver and U.S. Army veteran, died in Tripler Army Medical Center.
2008-06-03 04:53:33 -
Opening Bell: Ken Thompson Kicked To Curb (Columbia Journalism Review)
Wachovia says, No mas!; Lehman loss is coming; where are they now: Dick Grasso; Google angers big advertisers; etc.
2008-06-03 05:03:33 -
SmartMoney(TM) Ranks E*TRADE the #1 Online Broker (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp. today announced SmartMoney Magazine has ranked E*TRADE Securities the #1 Online Discount Broker with high scores across five categories. The 16th annual Broker Survey, which appears in the June 2008 issue of the magazine, rigorously analyzed the offerings and performance of sixteen online brokers based on: Mutual Funds & Investment Products, Banking Services, ...
2008-06-03 05:05:00 -
DTCC Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch New Suite of Services for Alternative Investment Products (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced today it has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch its Alternative Investment Products suite of services.
2008-06-03 05:30:00 -
Brightside taken over by Group Direct (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Mortgage broker Brightside is being acquired through a reverse takeover by current 10% shareholder Group Direct.
2008-06-03 05:54:00 -
''Clients First'' Says Next Generation of Independent Investment Advisors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO & LUBBOCK, Texas----Helping people in a meaningful way and putting clients' interests first is what attracts students most to the independent investment advisory profession, according to a May 2008 survey of 160 financial planning students conducted by Schwab Institutional and Texas Tech University's Division of Personal Financial Planning.
2008-06-03 06:00:00 -
Man to be questioned in slaying of former wife (San Diego Union-Tribune)
LAKESIDE: A woman found dead in her bedroom over the weekend was slain, a sheriff's homicide investigator said yesterday. Deputies found her former husband, who had shot himself in the stomach, in the same room. He underwent surgery and remained hospitalized yesterday.
2008-06-03 06:03:46 -
Credit crunch has hit RBS Insurance -S&P exec - Reuters UK
PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - The credit crunch has cut the number of bidders in the 7 billion pound ($13.8 billion) auction for Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS.L: Quote , Profile , Research ) insurance operations, a leading rating agency executive said on ...
2008-06-03 03:53:00 -
Help in avoiding foreclosure - Newsday
Homeowners drowning un- der the weight of adjustable-rate loans and other unmanageable mortgage debt will get a lifeline this week at two forums designed to help keep them afloat. The community organization Acorn is holding a foreclosure prevention ...
2008-06-03 02:48:00 -
Rating Cuts, Executive Ousters May Signal Longer Mortgage Slump - Bloomberg
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Ratings cuts at three of the biggest U.S. securities firms coupled with management shakeups at Wachovia Corp . and Washington Mutual Inc. yesterday triggered concern that the mortgage slump has yet to reach a bottom. The KBW ...
2008-06-02 11:13:00 -
Lawsuit: Timing wrong on mortgage rates - Miami Herald
A Lauderhill attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America, alleging the nation's largest commercial lender is charging its customers more than it should when recalculating payments on adjustable-rate mortgages. Richard J. Kaplan ...
2008-06-03 04:14:00