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Countrywide (CFC) is going to whack another 900 people. Most of these will come from the mortgage production business. CFC…
The Boston Stock Exchange (The "BSE") has announced that it has discontinued the operations of the Boston Equities Exchange ("BeX"),…
Lenders should "review to determine the full extent of their authority to identify borrowers at risk of default" and find…
Shares of Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE:TMA) are trading up by roughly 5% in pre-market activity. This news could have been mostly…
According to Bloomberg, when investment bankers look into their Christmas stockings, all they will see is coal. The news service…
Stocks Tickers: MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WB You will have to have…
Reuters reports that NYSE Euronext (NYX) might want to buy the Nasdaq (NDAQ) 31% ownership in The London Stock Exchange.…
On CNBC this morning, Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management was a guest on real estate values and said he…
Nasdaq (NDAQ) and Borse Dubai are both bidding for the Nordic exchange owner OMX. And, the price is up to…
It is too good to be true. Bank of America (BAC) put $ 2 billion into Countrywide Financial (CFC) by…
On today’s STOP TRADING on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that the Lehman (NYSE:LEH) exit from the mortgage business is a…
Capital One (NYSE:COF) is closing its wholesale mortgage unit called GreenPoint Mortgage and is lowering guidance. The company has revised…
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange (NDAQ) appears ready to dump its 31% holding in the London Stock Exchange and has hired…
If you want to make CEOs look like buffoons, ask them questions with obvious answers and see if the get…
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:NLY) announced the filing for an IPO of Chimera Investment Corporation under the NYSE tick "CIM." …
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