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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mortgage application volume rose less than 1% during the week ended Aug. 22, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly application survey. The trade group's application index rose to 421.6 during the week, from 419.3 a ...

Mortgage volume rises - CNN Money

Tim asked me a question this week that's been asked of many recently—here's his chime into the Greek chorus: When do you personally feel the overall US economy will turn for the better? My hunch, Tim, is that we're almost halfway there. The ...

Economy Will Improve -- But When? - CNBC

For a very pleasant change, this week’s data on US housing is ground for some relief. The supply of unsold houses is reducing, sales have stopped falling and prices are falling less swiftly than they had been. As far as they go, all of these ...

The Short View: US housing - Financial Times

Thornburg Mortgage , a specialist in jumbo home loans, said its survival remains in doubt following additional margin calls, as it scrambles to complete a restructuring and avoid collapse. The Santa Fe, New Mexico-based company said it covered $219 ...

Thornburg Survival in Doubt After New Margin Calls - CNBC

PBG Financial Services Ltd (PBG) in partnership with Central States Mortgage Inc. announces the relaunch of Home123 Mortgage(R). Home123(R) is the first of the national mortgage brands to reemerge after falling into bankruptcy related to the subprime ...

Home123(R) Back in Business with the Help of 400 Credit Unions - Forbes

(Fortune Magazine) -- The housing rescue package that Congress scrambled to pass in July was aimed primarily at stemming foreclosures and shoring up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But it also contains provisions that make reverse mortgages a better deal ...

Unlocking your home equity - CNN Money

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Thornburg Mortgage Inc , a specialist in jumbo home loans, said its survival remains in doubt following additional margin calls, as it scrambles to complete a restructuring and avoid collapse. The Santa Fe, New Mexico ...

UPDATE 1-Thornburg survival in doubt after new margin calls - Forbes

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A recovery in the U.S. housing market from the worst slump since the Depression is unlikely until ``well into 2009,'' Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston said today. ``I think we're right in the middle of it ...

Housing Rebound Unlikely Before 2009, HUD Chief Says (Update2) - Bloomberg

JACKSON, Wyo.–Do Washington policymakers listen too much to Wall Street? A possible bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on the heels of similar action involving investment firm Bear Stearns, seems to send a loud signal to financial companies ...

Wall Street bailout aid questioned at Fed event - Chicago Defender

WASHINGTON — Sheila C. Bair anticipated the mortgage crisis long before most other regulators. But she never dreamed it would wreak so much havoc on so many banks. Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Sheila C. Bair of the Federal Deposit ...