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  • Salmond: I will work with Unionists to get more powers

    Scotsman - ALEX Salmond today offers the prospect of an alliance with Unionists who want more powers for Holyrood. In an article in this newspaper, he says that a separate Scotland remains his goal - but admits others will draw the line short of full ...
    2007-08-22 12:07:00
  • Interim 2007 Standard Bank Group Limited Earnings Conference Call ...

    Insurance News Net - In terms of economic capital utilization, which we're now going to be disclosing, we have -- if we calculate the risk that we ... And the focus on existing customer relationships will be the continuing theme in the mortgage book moving forward -- sorry ...
    2007-08-22 07:31:00
  • Wake up to a new Australian dream

    Sydney Morning Herald - Back then mortgage repayments were 17.1 per cent of income and today the figure is 30.8 per cent. Dr Ron Silberberg, the HIA ... property [than an owner-occupied home] because banks take into account the rental income you will receive when they calculate ...
    2007-08-22 05:48:00
  • Finance by the Numbers

    Wall Street Journal - Quantitative finance might have lost a little of its luster in recent weeks with the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and its ... convertible bond being issued by a corporation and, by extending the Black-Scholes model to convertible securities, calculate ...
    2007-08-22 03:24:00
  • GETTING GOING

    Wall Street Journal - The subprime-mortgage mess, and the accompanying stock- and bond-market turmoil, may have been a surprise. Yet the pattern ... Instead, you just calculate how your funds compare with your targets and then do a little trading to get back on track, thus ...
    2007-08-22 12:25:00
  • BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Enhances Investment Analytics Product

    MSN MoneyCentral - Building on an already extensive modeling process, with over 40 sensitivities included to calculate key analytics such as Option Adjusted Duration, Yield and Convexity, a new econometric sub-prime mortgage model has been added to further quantify ...
    2007-08-22 11:53:00
  • The 15-year Mortgage Strategy

    Best Syndication - Most people refer to the term by years for easy, but it the 30 year mortgage is really 360 months in the view of lenders. If ... Next, calculate what the 15 year term repayment would have been on a month basis. When you send in your payment, send in the ...
    2007-08-22 05:29:00
  • BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Enhances Investment Analytics Product Line (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

    BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has completed multiple enhancements to its Investment Analytics product line, which provides institutional investors with the tools needed to evaluate and oversee a portfolio's performance, structure, risk exposure, compliance and other key investment criteria.
    2007-08-22 11:49:00
  • Why Leveraged Investments Sink And How They Can Recover (Investopedia)

    In the mortgage banking industry, property owners that owe more than their properties are worth are described as being underwater . If the value of a real estate asset is less than the associated mortgage debt, when owners sell their properties they are left owing money on the mortgage.
    2007-08-22 08:31:30
  • Is WaMu the Next Countrywide?

    Street.Com - ... com Ratings shows that four institutions are under-reserved for possible credit losses, a red flag as the economy slows and mortgage defaults ... But the findings come as investors confront a rising tide of bad news in the U.S. credit markets ...
    2007-08-22 06:12:00
  • Stock market investors focus on the Fed

    International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK: U.S. stock prices were mixed Tuesday as hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates offset fears of more bad news from money and credit markets. Countrywide Financial, the largest U.S. mortgage company, climbed after The Wall ...
    2007-08-22 06:45:00
  • Risky borrowers see loans tighten

    BBC Business - Would-be UK home owners with bad credit histories are finding it harder to get mortgages, experts have told the BBC. Lenders ... It may be becoming more difficult for you to reach the mortgage level you want," he told the BBC. "Or you may be declined ...
    2007-08-22 06:41:00
  • Accredited Home Lenders slashes jobs, stops making loans

    San Diego Union-Tribune - ... reeling from a raft of bad loans. Investors who buy subprime mortgages on the secondary market have been spooked by rising defaults and foreclosures. Consequently, demand for mortgage-backed securities has dried up – putting lenders in a credit ...
    2007-08-22 03:06:00
  • Credit crisis a GOP worry

    Los Angeles Times - ... legislative agenda to address the problems, including expanding the roles of government-sponsored mortgage ... The Fed's decision Friday that, private or not, the bad decisions that are freezing credit pose a threat to the economy as a whole have ...
    2007-08-22 02:37:00
  • Toll 'Concerned' About Mortgages

    Street.Com - ... news comes as the mortgage-lending industry has been decimated by rising defaults and delinquencies on recent loans to homebuyers with poor credit histories. The spike in bad loans has chased investors from the once-hot secondary market for mortgage ...
    2007-08-22 11:45:00