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  • The Big Question: Is the global economy heading for a recession?

    The Independent - Memories of the last economic storm, the recession of the early 1990s – with its unemployment, bankruptcies, punitive 15 per cent interest rates and negative equity misery for homeowners – seem to have dimmed. The generally used definition is that ...
    2007-10-10 05:59:00

  • The young and the penniless

    St. Petersburg Times - The low-interest rates of student loans are nothing, and you might even be better off putting extra cash in a high-yield CD or savings account. You'll make the big bucks soon enough; until then, add $10 on your minimum payment. 21. Pay off your ...
    2007-10-11 11:56:00

  • Red hot global currencies

    CNN Money - That, combined with high benchmark interest rates and economic growth, has provided a recent lift to the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars, which rely heavily on commodity exports. "[They] have been very attractive from a yield as well as a ...
    2007-10-10 05:59:00

  • Global real estate funds build hope on Indian market

    Economic Times - MUMBAI: Escalating interest rates, perception of a real estate asset bubble and aftershocks of US subprime credit defaults have not dampened the spirits of overseas funds looking to invest in the Indian realty sector. In the past nine months ...
    2007-10-11 10:44:00

  • US stocks sink after tech selldown

    Sydney Morning Herald - Comments from the European Central Bank Governing Council member Axel Weber that the ECB may have to raise interest rates again, given the expected pickup in inflation, added to the weaker tone. Even with the day's decline, shares of Baidu.com are up ...
    2007-10-12 04:57:00

  • S&P forecasts 8.6% economic growth

    Economic Times - The industry, reflecting the cumulative impact of rising interest rates and rupee appreciation, will grow by 9.2%, somewhat slower than last year, but a still healthy rate reflecting continuing buoy-ancy in investment spending. Services are ...
    2007-10-12 12:53:00

  • Rainy-day funds should be accessible (The Indianapolis Star)

    You have saved three months' worth of living expenses to be used in an emergency.
    2007-10-11 11:54:32

  • Peer review (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

    Q With money markets and certificates of deposit yielding more than 5 percent, why would I invest in bonds at all right now? -- DON A Money market rates are extremely short-term and change daily. If the Fed keeps cutting interest rates, a 5 percent yield could turn into a 4 percent yield pretty quickly. While it is true that some of the best yields right now are from money markets and CDs, this ...
    2007-10-11 03:37:16

  • Burns: Purchasing power key to withdrawal rates (Houston Chronicle)

    Q: You confused me recently in a column about safe rates of withdrawal. I am 68 years old and 80 percent invested in CDs. My CDs are currently paying between 5 percent and 5.5 percent. If I withdraw only 4 percent or 5 percent from my investments, I will have more money when I die than I have now.
    2007-10-11 10:49:16

  • 25% of August sub-prime mortgages now rejected

    MyFinances.co.uk - With the higher rates even fewer people will get a mortgage – that is above and beyond the 25 per cent of applicants who already do not meet ... between three and four times," said Francis Ghiloni, mform business development director. "In the current ...
    2007-10-12 03:23:00

  • Japan's Notes Rise as Decline in Stocks Spurs Demand for Debt

    Bloomberg - The central bank kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5 percent yesterday because it needs more time to gauge the effect of the U.S. subprime-mortgage crisis on the global economy ... five-year auction, less than the 1.27 percent yield on the current ...
    2007-10-12 02:26:00

  • Fox hopes to show that it means business

    New York Daily News - ... since 1989 (and was launched by current Fox ... if you have a car loan, if you have a mortgage, business news matters to you," Vamos says. "And I really think there is a demand for that; business coverage that can put the Fed decision on interest rates ...
    2007-10-12 02:33:00

  • Euro Zone Industrial Output Rose in August

    CNBC - ... the area was initially not greatly hurt by the financial turmoil resulting from the crisis in the US subprime mortgage ... On Thursday, some monetary policy makers said the ECB could rule out raising rates from the current 4.0% to tackle inflation threats
    2007-10-12 02:19:00

  • GE Reports Record Third-Quarter Net EPS up 15% to $.54 per Share

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... operations for its planned sale of the Japanese personal loan and WMC mortgage ... of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest and exchange rates and ... operations reporting as well as for accounting matters described in GE Current ...
    2007-10-12 03:31:00

  • Pound Set to Snap 2 Weeks of Gains Against Euro on Rate Outlook

    Bloomberg - ... gains against the euro on speculation the Bank of England will cut interest rates ... expectations the central bank will cut its main interest rate from the current 5.75 ... months in September, a report last week by HBOS Plc, the country's biggest mortgage ...
    2007-10-11 10:59:00

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