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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global banks may have to write down up to $10 billion of auction-rate securities after buying them back from retail customers. Eight banks have agreed to buy back more than $55 billion of auction-rate securities from investors at ...

Auction-rate buybacks add to bank writedown worries - Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global banks may have to write down up to $10 billion of auction-rate securities after buying them back from retail customers. Eight banks have agreed to buy back more than $55 billion of auction-rate securities from investors at ...

ANALYSIS-Auction-rate buybacks add to bank writedown worries - Forbes

MCLEAN, Va. , Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Freddie Mac FRE announced today that its Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index (CMHPI) Purchase-Only Series registered a modest 0.4 percent annualized decline in U.S. home values during the second ...

National Home-Value Drop Moderates in Second Quarter - MSN MoneyCentral

On the record Time coffee featuring Obama campaign manager David Plouffe: Plouffe argued for paying less attention to the ups and downs of the polls because a) Obama would beat McCain on turnout and b) swing voters would probably break one way or ...

Plouffe Whistles Plus: Obama's failed fight-back - Slate

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of protecting the debt of financial companies from default rose amid concern that losses tied to mortgages will continue to widen as the U.S. housing slump lingers. Credit-default swaps tied to Washington Mutual Inc ...

Financial Company Debt Risk Rises as Housing Concerns Linger - Bloomberg

McCain: Opposes abortion rights. Has voted for abortion restrictions permissible under Roe v. Wade, and now says he would seek to overturn that guarantee of abortion rights while being open to a running mate who supports abortion rights. Would not ...

Obama, McCain on the issues - Miami Herald

California had the worse decline with prices falling 15.8 percent, while Oklahoma ranked No. 1, with home prices rising 4.93 percent. U.S. home prices fell 4.8 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the biggest decline ever in a 17-year ...

Isle home prices fell 2.9% in second quarter - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

You know how when you give a party, you have a great time and there's this warm glow as you think about it? And then you start remembering the guests who didn't show up, and you get a little annoyed? Hillary's speech last night was like that ...

Obama's Failed Fight-Back - Slate

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (IPS) - Advocates are calling a new national trust fund to preserve, rehabilitate and build affordable housing, including public housing, a major grassroots victory and key step in addressing the needs of low-income people in the ...

Housing Fund Seen as Grassroots Victory - Inter Press Service

(See Corrections & Amplifications item below .) Democrats convened in Denver on Monday with the economy's woes muscling to the top of political concerns, as reflected in further drops in stocks and housing prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...