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| Paying People Not to Walk Away published on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:08:11 GMT |
A company called Loan Value Group is working with mortgage providers to offer rewards for staying put to home owners likely to strategically default on their loans.
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| Day labourers cash in as snow smothers DC published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:00:07 +0000 |
| At least one group was profiting from the record snowfall on the US capital: day labourers, hard hit by the recession, saw demand for their services pick up |
| Bid to bring healthcare bill in from the cold published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:48:34 +0000 |
| Democratic lawmakers and officials express scepticism that President Obama's latest attempt to revive healthcare reform will have better chances of succeeding than earlier attempts |
| US congressman John Murtha dies at 77 published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:19:36 +0000 |
| US Democratic Representative John Murtha, the chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died |
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| Lazard breaks ranks and speeds up pay-outs published on Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:24:58 +0000 |
| Lazard broke ranks with its Wall Street rivals on Wednesday by accelerating promised cash payments to staff in the fourth quarter in a move that pushed the 162-year-old investment bank into the red |
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| Copenhagen talks enter 'new phase' published on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:39:24 +0000 |
| Copenhagen climate conference enters a 'new phase' as ministers join in intensive negotiations to deliver an agreement by the end of the week, the president of the meeting says |
| Obama presses banks to boost lending published on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:18:47 +0000 |
| President Obama told the US's top bankers that they had a 'special responsibility' to help spur on the economic recovery after they received government bail-outs last year, urging them to increase lending to small businesses and mortgage refinancing |
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| Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Battle Using Wall Street Derivatives published on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:01:29 EST |
| Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Across Uganda, thousands of women
warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves. The clay-and-
metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire
cooking typical of East Africa, where forests are being chopped
down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people. |
| New Jersey Loses $22,000 a Day With Interest Rate Swap for Debt Never Sold published on Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:00:01 EST |
| Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey taxpayers are being
saddled with a bill of about $657,000 a month from Bank of
Montreal for an interest-rate swap approved by state officials
and linked to bonds that were never sold. |
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| Lower taxes, charges boost Nasdaq OMX profit (AP) published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:46:35 Etc/GMT |
| Eroding market share and weaker trading volumes hurt Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s fourth-quarter revenue, but sharply lower taxes and fewer charges helped the global exchange operator report better-than-expected profit growth. |
| Electronic Arts outlook disappoints, shares fall (Reuters) published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:44:33 Etc/GMT |
| Electronic Arts Inc disappointed investors again with weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue forecasts, driving shares of the game publisher about 9 percent lower. |
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| Ameriana Bancorp Reports Net Income of $128,000 or $0.04 Per Share for the Fourth Quarter of 2009 (Business Wire) published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:00:00 Etc/GMT |
| NEW CASTLE, Ind.----Ameriana Bancorp , parent company for Ameriana Bank, today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. The Company's profit for the fourth quarter continued a positive earnings trend in the second half of the year. |
| Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney, Kroger, Saks and Big Lots (Business Wire) published on Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:00:00 Etc/GMT |
| CHICAGO----Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. |
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