Types Of Bankruptcy

Mortgage applications bounce back (CNN Money)  U.S. mortgage applications rebounded last week from 4-year lows as mortgage rates slipped across the board, an industry trade group said Wednesday.read more...


Japan's Bubble Burst May Not Echo in U.S.  Economists point to reasons why our real-estate market won't fall apart in a similar fashion.via


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American needs a bold plan to end its dependence on oil  Economist Philip Verleger was traveling in Asia last month when the news broke that General Motors was slashing 30,000 jobs to try to avert its death spiral.read more...


She walks alone (Reg Req'd)  An internal alarm clock jolts her from sleep. It's 2:45 a.m. Her shift at Wal-Mart doesn't begin for more than two hours, but the store is nearly five miles from


Finding a Moral in One Developer's Story   Many years ago when I was backpacking through Asia, I bought books based on the number of pages per dollar. This sounds hopelessly philistine, but the best buys were long

May 13th, 2008

Freddie Mac loses $151M in 1Q as home loans falter

Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac’s first quarter loss widened to $151 million as the U.S. housing market worsened, though the results were not as poor as expected.

McLean-Va.-based Freddie Mac also said Wednesday it plans to raise $5.5 billion in new capital. Shares of Freddie Mac, the second-largest buyer and backer of home loans, rose more than 6 percent in premarket trading.

The quarterly loss at Freddie Mac was larger than a loss of $133 million in the January-through-March period last year. The results were equivalent to a loss of 66 cents a share, compared with 35 cents a share a year earlier. Read more



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