Earnings Are Down at IAC
IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller’s Internet media conglomerate, said yesterday that its quarterly profit fell 31 percent on an earnings decline at the Home Shopping Network television channel and a softer …
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Mortgage Brokers Chafe At Proposed Fed Rules To Curb Abuses (Nasdaq) Plenty of parties share blame for the housing crisis, but one of the most maligned groups has been mortgage brokers, who critics claim pushed thousands of homeowners into expensive mortgages
Home Improvement Rummage Sale Held This Weekend Attention home remodelers and rummage sale enthusiasts: the educational and charitable arm of the Milwaukee/NARI Home Improvement Council will host "The Home Improvement Rummage Sale" this weekend.read more...
Mortgage Fraud Ring Dupes Las Vegas Home Sellers (KLAS-TV) The FBI has identified Nevada as one of the top ten mortgage fraud hot spots in the nation. According to the FBI mortgage fraud costs lenders more than $1 billion
3 defendants in mortgage fraud case plead guilty (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) The principal players behind a giant mortgage fraud conspiracy that beset several southern Twin Cities suburbs and cast a pall over the area's housing market pleaded guilty to felony charges
Mortgage equity withdrawal falls (Reuters.co.uk) That was also much lower than the 12.377 billion pounds of equity Britons took out from their homes a year earlier. read more...
Identity Theft's Tangled Web (Reg Req'd) Paul Fairchild, a 34-year-old Web developer in Edmond, Okla., has never spent $500 on fine tobacco.read more...