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2011
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Federal Reserve Community Affairs Research Conference, Arlington, Virginia April 29, 2011 The Challenges to Communities "As families have struggled, so have their communities. In some areas, for example, high foreclosure rates have produced significant numbers of v...
04/29/2011
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicate: 1. The economic recovery is proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in the labor market are improving gradually. 2. Household spending and business investment in equipment and software continue to ex...
04/27/2011
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV The Fed has tripled its holdings of private and public debt – and added nearly $2 trillion in extra cash to do it. Keep in mind that most of that money is still frozen in the banking system. Bernanke's press conference also comes one day before the government report...
04/27/2011
FILED BETWEEN 04/18/11 AND 04/21/11 Breakdown by Date: 04/18/11 Monday 17 04/19/11 Tuesday 12 04/20/11 Wednesday 25 04/21/11 Thursday 10 Weekly Total 64 Breakdown by property type: Commercial 4 Homestead 33 NonHomestead 27 Weekly Total ...
04/26/2011
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Home Prices Edge Closer to 2009 Lows According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices(PDF) 26-Apr-2011 09:00 Data through February 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show prices for the 10-and 20-city comp...
04/26/2011
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In March 2009 the US Treasury launched a program to take toxic mortgage assets off banks' books. To date the program has earned $1.7 billion for taxpayers - $500 million in dividends on the investments made and $1.2 billion in "unrealized gains" as the value of securities purchased under the Trou...
04/26/2011
On Wednesday California U.S. District Court Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer dismissed all claims against Bank of America Corp. in a proposed class action that sought to hold the bank liable for the allegedly deceptive lending practices of former B of A unit Countrywide Financial Corp. A group of pensio...
04/26/2011
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New analytics avaliable through the credit assesstment firm FICO are able to identify customers likely to walk away from their mortgages, even when not yet delinquent. FICO Labs research shows it's possible to know which 20% of accounts represents nearly 70% of strategic default risk. With early...
04/24/2011
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The Federal Trade Commission filed contempt charges against a promoter of credit repair and debt relief services and three of his companies, alleging that they continued their deceptive marketing practices in violation of a federal court order. The FTC charged that the defendants tried to take ad...
04/20/2011
According to the findings in the 15th annual Securities Litigation Study released by PwC reverbations continued to be felt from the 2007-2008 financial crisis, with financial services companies holding the top spot as targets of private securities class action filings for the third consecutive y...
04/19/2011
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