Archive for January, 2009

Does It Pay To Refinance? (Forbes)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Refinancing isn’t always the best move. Here are some things to consider before you decide to redo your mortgage.

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As home equity declines, cash-out refinancing ebbs (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

McLEAN, Va. — U.S. homeowners took out $17.5 billion in home equity in the fourth quarter by refinancing their mortgages, the lowest amount since the first quarter of 2001, Freddie Mac said Friday. Sixty-two percent of all refinance loans in…

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Cash-out refinancing ebbs (South Bend Tribune)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — U.S. homeowners took out $17.5 billion in home equity in the fourth quarter by refinancing their mortgages, the lowest amount since the first quarter of 2001, Freddie Mac said Friday.

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Freddie Mac Increases Fees on Some Mortgages (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Freddie Mac posted on its Web site higher fees that will raise costs for some home mortgage borrowers.

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Warner Robins police release video images from CVS robbery (Macon Telegraph)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Warner Robins police released photos today from a CVS Pharmacy surveillance video of a man who robbed the store Jan. 11.

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NYSE Euronext Chief Sees Hope for I.P.O. Rebound (New York Times)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Duncan Niederauer, the chief executive of NYSE Euronext , offered a whiff of optimism amid the Davos gloom on Friday as he talked about the market for initial public offerings.

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Calgary wins with millions for highway twinning near Lake Louise, new science centre (Global TV Calgary)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Vowing to cut red tape and get cash out the door, the Harper government called on cities and provinces to do their share to get $12 billion in infrastructure cash flowing to Canadian communities over the next two years.

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Criag McIvor: Surviving tough year ahead calls for thinking outside the scare (The New Zealand Herald)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Over recent weeks, business owners and managers have been returning to work to face potentially the biggest challenge of their careers - surviving 2009. To achieve this goal, management will need to be more organised, more focused and more strategically astute than ever before.

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Lottery Scratch-Off Thief Caught Attempting To Cash Out (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Police arrested a man after he tried to cash lottery tickets stolen just hours earlier

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Mozambique: Light Sentences for Traffickers of Foreign Currency (AllAfrica.com)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Maputo — A Mozambican court has sentenced two Pakistani citizens, not to prison, but to relatively small fines, for attempting to smuggle over two million US dollars in cash out of the country in November 2008.

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