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  • Top tips: Finding a way to happiness - New Zealand Herald

    Top tips: Finding a way to happinessNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 2 hours agoShort-term investment markets are uncertain and there are distracting headlines, such as those about American sub-prime mortgages. ...
    2008-01-05 08:25:44
  • Wanting of consumer alert in Sri Lanka Act exhaustive but lacks teeth! - Sunday Observer

    Wanting of consumer alert in Sri Lanka Act exhaustive but lacks teeth!Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka - 28 minutes agoCity Regulators deal in various areas such as mortgages, vehicle, consumer goods, and Essential items for the Public and educating the public. ...
    2008-01-05 10:16:36
  • Gold & the Commodity Super Cycle - BullionVault (press release)

    Gold & the Commodity Super CycleBullionVault (press release), UK - 24 minutes agoYet the same sophisticated bankers that bought $1.8 trillion of toxic sub-prime mortgages over the past few years are now locking in 10-year bond yields ...
    2008-01-05 10:21:10
  • WorldBriefly (Charleston Daily Mail)

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a presidential race where the Democratic candidates are competing as agents of change, Hillary Rodham Clinton's most reliable campaign prop is something of a political relic -- her husband.
    2008-01-05 04:17:59
  • Roy's Keane to sign Fortune (Daily Mail)

    Sunderland manager Roy Keane will decide whether to sign Quinton Fortune 'in the next week' after revealing the former Manchester United midfielder has been training with the club for the last month
    2008-01-05 06:56:45
  • Top tips: Finding a way to happiness (The New Zealand Herald)

    So money's not the source of happiness? Why not? As Aristotle said, "Money is a means to an end, not an end in itself". So whether it leads to happiness or not depends on what you do with it. The greatest potential that modern-day affluence offers is to live life on our own term.
    2008-01-05 08:39:23
  • Hyundai predicts higher US, China sales (Muzi)

    Hyundai Motor Co. said Friday it expects to increase sales by about 10 percent in the United States and 64 percent in China in 2008 by introducing new models after missing targets last year.
    2008-01-05 09:48:27
  • Trichet Says Market Tensions Receding, ECB `Ready' (Update4) (Bloomberg.com)

    Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said financial-market tensions are receding and the bank remains committed to fighting inflation.
    2008-01-05 10:17:36
  • Act exhaustive but lacks teeth! (Sunday Observer)

    Recently in the United Kingdom, famous phone company "Car phone Wherehouse" was fined nearly Euros 300,000.00 by the regulator for misguiding the consumer on insuring mobile phones.
    2008-01-05 10:20:47
  • Economists say 2008 will be year to forget (Market Watch)

    Economists gathering in New Orleans say a recession is all but certain but whether a government stimulus package can help is still in question.
    2008-01-05 10:34:22
  • HBOS holds off as HSBC plots Abbey bid

    Scotland on Sunday Online - Almost a month after confirming its interest in a possible bid, HBOS insists it is still only in the "early stages" of considering whether or not to ... bidding war that emerges, is also believed to be reluctant to consider divesting any of its mortgage ...
    2008-01-05 08:06:00
  • UK rate cliffhanger as housing market slows

    Gulf Daily News - The British interest rate decision next week looks set to be a nail-biter after data yesterday pointed to a sharp ... The fall to 83,000 from 89,000 in October left mortgage approvals only a shade above the all-time low of 77,000 hit in November 2004
    2008-01-05 07:24:00
  • Head to head, pros trample the ordinary Joes

    Globe and Mail - ... com's stock lists, which are an online tool for following stocks of interest. Who wins ... privatization of BCE expected to close early in 2008, this situation will only ... because of concerns about their exposure to problems in the U.S. subprime mortgage ...
    2008-01-05 05:43:00
  • Unemployment rises to 5%, a 2-year high

    Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - ... The U.S. economy edged a step closer to recession in December by producing only ... said that despite the inflation danger, the Fed was likely to further cut interest ... percentage point since September, when it first reacted to the subprime mortgage ...
    2008-01-05 08:49:00
  • Your survival plan if a recession strikes

    Times Online - Carve yourself out a niche (be the only one who can figure out the IT system ... 1990s collapse was made far worse by the Bank of England having to raise interest ... This is no reason for complacency if you have a big mortgage. You have to be sure ...
    2008-01-05 07:38:00