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Safe and Sorry: Even Bond Funds Can Disappoint (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
Bond funds have not been immune to recent market tumult, and investors should carefully weigh their options before assuming that bonds are necessarily a pillar of stability.
2008-04-07 07:14:58 -
The Feds Want to Help You With Your Mortgage (TheStreet.com)
Congress steps in to alleviate the subprime mess.
2008-04-07 08:27:45 -
The simple facts (Blue Ridge Business Journal)
• 85 percent of all sub-prime mortgages are being paid on time.
2008-04-07 10:14:00 -
Fortune 's Stanley Bing: What People At Yahoo Are Thinking About (HuffingtonPost)
I personally have been part of a merger/acquisition scenario more times than I care to contemplate. It's like a flu. You feel it coming on. Then you either get it or you don't.
2008-04-07 11:04:24 -
Canada Building Permits Fall on Slowing U.S. Economy (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian building permits unexpectedly fell for a fourth straight month in February for the first time since 1990, as a slowing U.S. economy led businesses in Ontario to scale back new projects.
2008-04-07 01:24:21 -
Yen May Extend Drop as Eased Credit Concern Fuels Yield Demand (Bloomberg.com)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- The yen and Swiss franc may extend declines against most of the major currencies as reduced concern credit market losses will deepen encourages investors to buy higher-yielding assets funded by loans in Japan and Switzerland.
2008-04-07 04:38:49 -
And It All Comes Down to This... (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)
Eight simple suggestions can help keep your investment goals on track in the years ahead.
2008-04-05 06:27:00 -
How much can you borrow now? (BBC News)
An expert describes how the upheaval in the mortgage market is affecting borrowers' choices.
2008-04-07 02:55:45 -
Wait a few weeks for economy clues (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Can you wait three weeks? If so, you'll soon get an answer about whether we've hit economic bottom.
2008-04-07 03:23:53 -
Baseline Oil & Gas Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2007 Results (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
HOUSTON, April 7, 2008 -- Baseline Oil & Gas Corp. today announced results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2007. Highlights include:
2008-04-07 11:13:11 -
Top National News Right Now (KIVI Boise)
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2008-04-07 12:03:12 -
ANZ increases bad debt charges due to credit crunch (Reuters Finance News, New Zealand via Yahoo!7 Finance)
SYDNEY, April 7 (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) ANZ.AX said on Monday it expects much higher bad debt provisions in the first half of fiscal 2008, as firms grapple with fallout from the global credit crunch, knocking its shares down nearly 7 percent.
2008-04-07 12:27:47 -
Gulf central bankers pledge to keep their dollar pegs (International Herald Tribune)
The United Arab Emirates backed its Gulf Arab neighbors Monday, saying it would not adjust the peg linking its dirham to the dollar.
2008-04-07 12:40:39 -
Top Links From This Story: (The San Francisco Examiner)
Examiner Reader said: and they call this a democracy? HA!
2008-04-07 12:49:05 -
EU's Juncker: Eurozone economics prospects growing worse (San Jose Mercury News)
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Volatile foreign exchange rates and rising inflation are hurting the euro-zone's economic growth prospects, the head of a group of the region's finance ministers said Monday.
2008-04-07 02:01:56