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U.S. mortgage rates fall to record low: Freddie Mac

Reuters - Thu Dec 3, 11:42 am ET

U.S. mortgage rates dropped to a record low in the latest week, as rates fell for a fifth straight week, a closely watched mortgage survey showed Thursday.

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U.S. mortgage rates fall to record low: Freddie Mac
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 11:42 am ET
U.S. mortgage rates dropped to a record low in the latest week, as rates fell for a fifth straight week, a closely watched mortgage survey showed Thursday.
Fannie Mae Redemption
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Dec 4, 9:00 am ET
Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amounts indicated for the following securities issues on the redemption dates indicated below at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of redemption:
Banks Take Losses on Short Sales as Foreclosures Soar (Update1)
Bloomberg - 2 hours 55 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Drew Schlosser tried for two years to sell his three-bedroom Punta Gorda, Florida, waterfront condominium for less than he owed on its two mortgages.
Mortgages: Fixed-rate mortgages hit record low: Freddie Mac
Market Watch - Thu Dec 3, 11:10 am ET
Average rates for 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgages fall to a record low this week.
30-year rates fall to 4.71%, elicit mortgage applications
USA Today - Fri Dec 4, 2:36 am ET
The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped to a record low of 4.71% this week, pushed down by an aggressive government campaign to reduce borrowing costs.
20 killed in Indonesian amusement center fire
AP via Yahoo! News - 9 minutes ago
A fire at an amusement center in a commercial building in Indonesia's third largest city killed at least 20 people and injured two others Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.
Top 10 Craziest Solutions to Global Warming
LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - 20 minutes ago
World politicians will toss around the best ideas they have to get us out of the climate change mess we're in when they meet at the U.N. Copenhagen summit next week. Many people have suggested novel ways to combat the water pollution, smog, mounds of trash and global warming facing Earth. Here are some of the wackier (or at least, wackier-sounding) solutions ever proposed to solve Earth's ...
In Bolivia vote, Indian power a central issue
AP via Yahoo! News - 28 minutes ago
In Bolivia's biggest municipality, a scrub-brush expanse of cattle ranches and hardscrabble farms, Sunday's national elections aren't all about Evo Morales.
20 killed in Indonesia karaoke club fire: police
AFP via Yahoo! News - 31 minutes ago
Twenty people were killed on Friday after a commercial building in Indonesia's Medan, North Sumatra province, caught fire in a blaze lasting an hour, police said.
In real estate, nesting is the new flipping
CNN Money - Fri Dec 4, 6:40 am ET
If flippers were the poster children of the real estate boom, then nesters are becoming the icons of the new housing market.
Yard Sale
Forbes - 1 hour 10 minutes ago
Forget growth--General Electric's Jeff Immelt is on a mission to raise cash now.
Oklahoma man sentenced for money laundering
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 13 minutes ago
An Edmond man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for money laundering.
Global warming may require higher dams, stilts
AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 13 minutes ago
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.
House votes to extend tax on wealthy estates
USA Today - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
The House voted Thursday to permanently extend a 45% inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.
Citigroup Stands Alone
New York Times - 1 hour 16 minutes ago
Citigroup is the last of the Wall Street giants to remain tethered to government support, putting the struggling bank at a further disadvantage.