Tue, Apr 22 2008, 11:56 AM
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 11:32 AM
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 8:01 AM
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 7:00 AM
The new monthly OFHEO purchase-only home price index
is expected to fall 1.5% in February, following a 1.1% decline in the
January report.
The ...
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. house prices rose 0.6% in February following
January's 1.1% decline, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight (OFHEO) reported Tues...
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Existing home sales fell more than expected in March,
falling 2.0% to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 4.93 million units,
largely retracing th...
Tue, Apr 22 2008, 6:57 AM
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 12:45 PM
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 11:17 AM
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 7:23 AM
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 7:00 AM
Economists will be paying attention to this month's U.S.
housing data in hopes of finding a bottom in the market.
Before that, however, the focus ...
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 7:00 AM
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight has reached a
notable settlement with three of Fannie Mae's former
executives.
The settlemen...
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 7:00 AM
The existing home sales index for March is expected
to fall 1.6% to a pace of 4.93 million units, following a surprising 2.9%
gain to a pace of 5....
Mon, Apr 21 2008, 6:40 AM
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Fri, Apr 18 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking at a credit conference in Charlotte, North Carolina on
Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren addressed the current housing
price slum...
Fri, Apr 18 2008, 7:00 AM
In the strange thinking that passes for logic on Wall Street, shares
of Citigroup stock were expected to surge today after
the company announced y...
Fri, Apr 18 2008, 5:28 AM
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 10:54 AM
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 10:24 AM
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:37 AM
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Home builders, who have been feeling the squeeze on the selling side
of their business for months, are now reporting that they are caught in a
crunc...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking Thursday before the House Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Credit, Federal Reserve Division of Consumer
and Community Af...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, one of two Fed dissenters in the
last FOMC rate cut decision, said he has a "strong reluctance"
about further ...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. initial jobless claims came in lower than expected in the week
ending April 12 with a total of 372K seasonally adjusted claims filed,
represe...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Hundreds of thousands of American homeowners may be in desperate
straits, facing crippling rate resets or worse, foreclosure, but others
continued t...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
If the several million people facing foreclosure over the next
few years actually lose their homes, where are they going to go?
The conventional...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Merrill Lynch & Company will eliminate 2,900 jobs as
it struggles to recover from its third consecutive quarterly loss which
it announced on Thurs...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 7:00 AM
Inflation worries sparked a front-end led selloff in Treasuries on
Thursday as market participants increasingly believe the Federal Reserve
will onl...
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 1:57 PM
Thu, Apr 17 2008, 1:17 PM
Wed, Apr 16 2008, 9:43 AM
Wed, Apr 16 2008, 7:57 AM
Wed, Apr 16 2008, 7:00 AM
Economic conditions across the United States have slowed since
February, the Federal Reserve's Beige Book noted, as
nine of the 12 districts repor...
Wed, Apr 16 2008, 7:00 AM
Housing starts and the issuing of
construction permits continued to fall in March. Permits
for building privately-owned housing units were issued...
Wed, Apr 16 2008, 7:00 AM
Mortgages rates , which were drifting during the week
ended April 3 were virtually frozen during the week ending April 10
according to Freddie Mac's...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 10:29 AM
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:08 AM
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made considerable progress towards
achieving financial stability , but more progress needs
to be made, according to...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh (voter) said
rate cuts and liquidity injections are working to partially offset the
impact of the current mar...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
In spite of it all, the "it" being the stunning speed with which
Bear Stearns hit rock bottom last month and the midnight
ride rescue of the inves...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
The Federal Reserve offered no explanation for the quarter-point cut
in the discount rate on the day of the near-collapse of Bear Stearns in
minut...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
The United States will hold most of the economic spotlight on Tuesday
morning with the release of March's producer price index along with the
Empire...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
The U.S. Labor Department's headline measure of producer price
inflation grew at 1.1% in March, up from February's 0.3% gain
and higher than forec...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
A report from Wells Fargo and the National Association of Home
Builders suggests the housing market was little changed from
March to April, with t...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 6:35 AM
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