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  • Aussie stocks drop for 10th session; MFS slides (Reuters Finance News, Australia via Yahoo!7 Finance)

    SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Australian shares fell 0.7 percent on Friday, declining for a 10th straight session and extending their longest losing streak in more than 12 years, as mining stocks tumbled on fears a likely recession in the United States would dampen metals prices.
    2008-01-17 08:41:09

  • Data Protection: Iron Mountain's Digital Record Center For Images Gives Businesses Greater Access To Essential Documents (DataStorage-DataStorageConnection)

    Iron Mountain Incorporated, the global leader in information protection and storage services, recently announced the availability of its Digital Record Center for Images, which provides businesses hosted storage and easy access to scanned images, PDFs and other digital files.
    2008-01-17 08:48:45

  • Home Buyers Learn More At Forum (WXIA-TV Atlanta)

    There's another sign tonight of a slowing economy. New home construction is down -- it is at its lowest in 16 years, according to the commerce department.
    2008-01-17 08:53:05

  • 16 Indicted In Local Mortgage Fraud Scheme (KXAN 36 Austin)

    Sixteen people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in an Austin mortgage fraud scheme that spanned years and cost lenders millions of dollars. The fraud dates back to 1999 and involves two dozen Austin-area residential properties.
    2008-01-17 08:54:53

  • Wells Fargo 4Q profit drops 38 percent (El Paso Times)

    SAN FRANCISCO—Wells Fargo & Co. ended 2007 with its lowest quarterly profit in six years, dragged down by the declining home values and mortgage mess that's tormenting most of the banking industry.
    2008-01-17 08:56:43

  • Loan defaults hit Citigroup in India too (Business Standard India)

    Citigroup, apart from grappling with the write-offs and losses in its consumer banking business in the US, will also have to get its act right in other markets as well, particularly, India and Mexico.
    2008-01-17 08:57:29

  • Washington Mutual swings to 4Q loss (El Paso Times)

    SEATTLE—Washington Mutual Inc., the country's biggest savings and loan, said Thursday it swung to a $1.87 billion loss in the fourth quarter, hurt badly by the sinking value of its mortgage portfolio.
    2008-01-17 08:58:52

  • COLUMN-Worried about inflation? Just wait: James Saft

    Forbes - But even aggressive cuts in interest rates will have a limited and painfully slow impact on demand under these circumstances, according to Magnus. He contrasts the current crisis, which is fundamentally about the solvency of borrowers and the banks ...
    2008-01-17 12:10:00

  • Growth will slow down to 8.5% in 2008-09, says PM's panel

    Times of India - While there may be signs of growth moderation during the current and the next ... is clearly more optimism in the farm sector, thanks to abundant rains, interest ... that oil prices need to be hiked to factor in the rise in global crude rates ...
    2008-01-17 03:52:00

  • Bubble economics

    Guardian Unlimited - ... raised interest rates ... for the current crisis. Greenspan, always accommodating to the needs of Wall Street, worked on the principle that the best way to cope with the collapse of one bubble was to blow another one. In 2003, the Fed cut interest rates ...
    2008-01-17 06:08:00

  • Dollar retains losses vs yen after Bernanke

    Guardian Unlimited - ... as a signal that the U.S. central bank is willing to cut the benchmark federal funds rate aggressively from the current 4 ... rate easing again led investors to believe the U.S. economic outlook is very bleak and that the Fed will cut interest rates ...
    2008-01-17 06:51:00

  • Fitch Rates $17.2MM Norfolk, Virginia GOs 'AA'; Outlook Stable

    Forbes - Fitch Rates $17.2MM Norfolk, Virginia GOs 'AA'; Outlook Stable 01.17.08, 4:34 PM ... The current refunding will allow the city to realize net present value savings ... Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall ...
    2008-01-17 01:43:00

  • Did somebody say "recession"?

    Salon - ... increasing or decreasing the amount of liquidity sloshing around the economy by raising and lowering interest rates. So when Ben Bernanke told Congress on Thursday that "fiscal action could be helpful, in principle" for addressing the current economic ...
    2008-01-17 07:27:00

  • Interest rate cuts 'won't be easy' says Sir John Gieve

    Daily Telegraph - ... may prevent the Bank of England from cutting rates ... indicated that he is in favour of a series of interest rate cuts, bringing the cost of borrowing back "to a more neutral stance", reckoned by economists to be around 4.75pc, rather than the current ...
    2008-01-17 04:56:00

  • Global turmoil weighs on RBA's rates decision

    News.com.au - ... inflation-fighting mandate of the Reserve Bank will be tested at its next meeting as the bank decides whether the current ... Interest rates: Global turmoil weighs on RBA Takeover: Analysts divided on BHP and Rio New York: Recession fears pummel Wall ...
    2008-01-17 03:02:00

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