Wall St seen up as oil holds steady
Wall Street shares are set to open higher on Thursday as the oil price held steady albeit above $66/barrel and the Nikkei hurdled 13,500 with markets watching U.S. economic growth data and Pepsico …
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Housing starts up, jobless claims rise U.S. housing starts rose in May, but fell shy of expectations, while a separate report on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits edged higher.via
U.S. homebuilders' confidence about sales rises in November WASHINGTON: Homebuilders are growing a bit more confident that sales will improve in the coming months, an index showed Thursday.Commentread more...
Feds Increase Short-term Interest Rate By a Quarter Percent Benita Turner pays constant attention to interest rates. She says it factors into her buying decisions.via
Heartwell Mortgage goes out of business (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids) Heartwell Mortgage, a decades-old, local company is going under, and dozens of employees are now out of work.read more...
State agencies band together to head off mortgage scammers (Alaska Journal of Commerce) In the midst of a sharp rise nationally in foreclosures in the subprime mortgage market, a number of government agencies and nonprofit groups are combining efforts to help Alaskans keep
HBOS to cut mortgage sector jobs (BBC News) HBOS is to cut 325 jobs by the end of March next year as it closes one of its specialist mortgage brands.read more...