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  • Vague ethics rules invite confusion - The Virginian-Pilot

    Vague ethics rules invite confusionThe Virginian-Pilot, VA - 6 hours agoSuit is a mortgage loan officer, and her professional ties to the real estate industry are well-known. But narrowly drawn ethics laws obscured her ...
    2008-01-04 09:07:25
  • Clinton Camp's Challenge: How Hard to Hit Obama? - Wall Street Journal

    Clinton Camp's Challenge: How Hard to Hit Obama?Wall Street Journal - 6 hours agoLou D'Allesandro, who warns against going negative: "My advice is, always be positive," he said in an interview afterward. ...
    2008-01-04 09:28:47
  • Business news in brief - Philadelphia Inquirer

    Business news in briefPhiladelphia Inquirer, PA - 3 hours agoPHH Corp. got a consolation prize out of its failed takeover by General Electric Capital Corp. and the Blackstone Group LP The Mount Laurel mortgage lender ...
    2008-01-05 12:04:36
  • Country Music Soars into 2008 Posting Double Digit Gains for ... - PR Web (press release)

    Country Music Soars into 2008 Posting Double Digit Gains for ...PR Web (press release), WA - 3 hours agoUSA Today's Waggoner says, "Spooked by the credit crisis, investors have yanked billions of dollars from stock and bond mutual funds since the mortgage ...
    2008-01-05 12:04:48
  • From the horse's mouth: Financial forecasts a mug's game - Globe and Mail

    From the horse's mouth: Financial forecasts a mug's gameGlobe and Mail, Canada - 3 hours agoIndeed, Birinyi Associates, which has long tracked the less than sterling performances of market prognosticators, says that's good advice at any time. ...
    2008-01-05 12:28:24
  • FREE PRESS POLL - Winnipeg Free Press

    FREE PRESS POLLWinnipeg Free Press, Canada - 2 hours agoMaybe this is why financial advice shows like Maxed Out or Til Debt do us Part are so popular. They reveal that other Canadians make worse monetary choices ...
    2008-01-05 01:12:59
  • Don’t worry, be happy - ic Wales

    Don’t worry, be happyic Wales, United Kingdom - 1 hour ago“I think there’sa number of mortgage issues. There’s the current debt people put themselves into at Christmas. Quite often, apart from credit cards, ...
    2008-01-05 02:01:41
  • Who can afford $1-million houses? - Vancouver Sun

    Who can afford $1-million houses?Vancouver Sun,  Canada - 1 hour agoNow, he and interior-designer partner Donna Toppings are comfortably ensconced with a mortgage that is significantly less than 50 per cent of their purchase ...
    2008-01-05 02:14:48
  • No sax for Bill, just politicking for former first lady Hillary - Foster's Daily Democrat

    No sax for Bill, just politicking for former first lady HillaryFoster's Daily Democrat, NH - 1 hour agoSuggesting he knew Behrendt's question could be on the minds of many, Clinton said any advice he would give his president-wife would need to be signed off ...
    2008-01-05 02:35:13
  • Our position: The state investment fund still doesn't have enough ... - Orlando Sentinel

    Our position: The state investment fund still doesn't have enough ...Orlando Sentinel, FL - 1 hour agoIt's also important that the SBA expand the number of companies it uses to handle trades to broaden the advice it receives. One firm, Lehman Brothers, ...
    2008-01-05 02:45:47
  • End of the road for Dakar rally as terrorist threat cancels race (The Herald)

    Five despondent Scots motorcyclists who had spent £250,000 among them to take part in the Dakar rally were preparing to fly home today after the event's cancellation.
    2008-01-04 04:15:20
  • More help for those facing foreclosure (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

    An advice center, a joint venture of the Urban League and ACORN, opens today in Minneapolis to help homeowners.
    2008-01-04 07:18:01
  • Just chuck the forecasts (The Globe and Mail)

    Most professional forecasters won't look back fondly at 2007, a year when many of them turned out to be spectacularly wrong about such trivial details as the price of oil, the rise of the loonie and, most egregiously, the enormous impact on global credit markets and bank balance sheets of the U.S. subprime mortgage fiasco.
    2008-01-04 09:05:11
  • 11th Circuit Ruling Costs Lotto Winners Millions (Law.com)

    Anthony Bertucci was a Florida Lotto winner about 10 years ago. Today, he is selling his home and moving out of state to pay the IRS after an 11th Circuit decision last month that will cost 63 lottery winners nationwide millions in taxes. The panel ruled that Bertucci and the others around the country who sold their winnings to investment companies must pay income taxes on the lump sum they ...
    2008-01-04 09:10:39
  • Reality TV star or CEO? The line blurred in 2007, with execs busted cheating and brawling (The Norman Transcript)

    AP Business WriterNEW YORK -- Could any reality TV show rival the swift falls and ignominious exits of top ...
    2008-01-04 09:53:14