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The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking. Many Americans have recently found themselves changing retirement plans after losing a substantial amount of home equity as the housing market and the overall U.S. economy struggle. These folks ...

When home equity evaporates, what's left? - Cape Cod Times

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- When Chuck Bidwell and Jennifer Guarino took over J.W. Hulme Co. a few years ago, their plan was to transform the tiny maker of duck-hunting gear and fishing-rod bags into a luxury luggage company. They applied the modern American ...

On Front Lines of Debt Crisis, Luggage Maker Fights for Life - Wall Street Journal

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- Banking stocks traded lower Monday, retreating as Deutsche Bank analysts cut their profit outlook and warned that trouble is likely to spread to more types of loans this year as the economy worsens. The outlook for the banking ...

THE RATINGS GAME: Bigger Loan Losses Will Hurt Banks In 2009, Deutsche ... - CNN Money

The economic turmoil of 2008 has left few bright spots, but here's one: Mortgage rates have plummeted. Rates on 30-year, fixed loans are hovering around 5 percent - the lowest level since Freddie Mac began tracking rates in 1971. Some economists ...

As loan rates fall, homeowners consider refinancing - Record Searchlight

A seven-member investor group including billionaire George Soros and Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell have agreed to purchase failed lender IndyMac Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, for $13.9 billion. IndyMac, which specialized ...

Flowers, Soros, Michael Dell team to buy IndyMac - Marketplace.publicradio.org

WASHINGTON (AP) — A seven-member group of investors has agreed to buy the remnants of failed lender IndyMac Bank, a symbol of the housing boom and bust, for $13.9 billion, federal regulators said Friday. IndyMac, which specialized in loans made ...

Investor group agrees to buy failed IndyMac - Independent

The Times : Barack Obama said only unprecedented and urgent government spending can prevent the deepening recession stretching for years. The Times : Experts warned the lowest interest rate in the Bank of England's history will deter savers from ...

Kill the competition: Obama spending ... Rate doubts ... Brown rev-up - Times Online

Any bank or mortgage broker who wants to loan you money for a home equity line knows it’s in their best interest to lend right up to your credit limit. They make more money that way. Yet, just because you qualify for a home equity line doesn’t ...

Get advice before tappping HELOC for an investment - Huntsville Item

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies are having unusual price changes in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of 1:55 p.m. in New York. Commodity shares fell after oil prices tumbled and Alcoa Inc. (AA US ...

Arbitron, ICO Global, Monsanto, Monster: U.S. Equity Movers - Bloomberg

Patience Iweta's council tax arrears of less than £2,000 escalated to a debt of more than £20,000 when she was forced to take out a huge loan to avoid losing her home. Ms Iweta, 44, of New Cross, southeast London, lived in constant fear of having ...