The 6% mortgage rate holds in Hawaii (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
For a fourth week, the prevailing rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in Hawaii is holding at a flat 6 percent, the Honolulu Board of Realtors reported Friday.
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Stocks drop; mortgage default woes hit bank stocks (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Stocks fell for a third straight session on Friday as concern over rising defaults in the subprime mortgage industry sent financial services shares for their worst drop in a
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