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Home prices down 9% from a year ago

The rise in foreclosures continued to drive down the median price of homes across the country in the third quarter, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors on Tuesday. Between 35% and 40% of all...

Wholesale prices fall by record 2.8 pct.

Wholesale prices experienced the biggest one-month drop last month on records that go back more than 60 years, illustrating the impact falling energy prices and fears of a prolonged recession can have on inflation. Wholesale...

More negative signs for US housing market (AP)

Top lawmakers threw their support Tuesday behind a proposal to use $24 billion in government funds to help struggling borrowers, as reports showed U.S. home prices sinking in four out of five cities and homebuilders reported...

Central California activists plead for foreclosure aid

By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON -- Prayers and politics combined Tuesday as Fresno minister Bill Knezovich joined some 170 activists pleading for help with the foreclosure crisis that's stricken the San...

States lend a hand in time of home foreclosures

There were 2.6 million foreclosures from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, a 45% jump from the same period last year. Among the new plans: • North Carolina requires lenders to notify the state at least 45 days before a foreclosure filing...

Home-Builder Index Plunges to New Low

WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Home Builders released results Tuesday of a monthly survey of builders' thoughts on market prospects. Its latest, November, index for sales of new, single-family homes tumbled into...

Bureau of Financial Institutions' Survey Shows Slight Increase in Home Foreclosures

Superintendent Lloyd P. LaFountain, III announced on Monday that recently completed analysis of 2008 second quarter data by the Bureau of Financial Institutions shows a continuing slow increase in home foreclosures in Maine....

What to Do if Banks Cut Home Equity Line of Credit Limits

Knowing 5 things will help homeowners' HELOC decisions, Bills.com president says The economic downturn is affecting not only Americans' home values, but their home equity lines of credit, said Ethan Ewing, president of free...

Heads Up: Major Crash Recos Early This Week!

On Thursday, precisely 17 minutes after the S&P 500 hit its lowest point of this entire bear market, I urged my subscribers to take more profits on their inverse ETFs. And now, with thousands of hedge funds set to dump hundreds...

Hope for Homeowners foreclosure program falls flat

Once touted as a potential breakthrough to help solve the foreclosure crisis, the government's Hope for Homeowners program has failed to live up to its billing so far. And there are serious doubts it ever will.

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