No Real Disruption Seen for Big Lender or Mortgage Market
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Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage finance company, will probably not face major business disruptions from the $9 billion write-off that federal regulators are requiring it to take, analysts and investors said yesterday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite mortgage rates hitting their highest level in almost a year, the Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s mortgage activity index rose 1.1% to 626.2 in the week ended July 6, with applications for buying homes up 3.8%. Applications were 10.5% above year-ago levels. But the 4-week average fell 1.6% to 6.27 as homebuyers remain wary.
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Stocks were little changed in volatile trading on Monday as a larger-than-expected decline in new home sales in December was offset by positive earnings surprises.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Monday said it has minimal exposure to nonprime mortgages, but may still experience fluctuating earnings in the near term due to turmoil in the U.S. subprime market.
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Northern Rock&#39;s full-year profit will at least meet analysts&#39; expectations as the mortgage bank continues to pile on business despite the slowing housing market.
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Problems in the U.S. subprime  mortgage market are unlikely to push the U.S. economy into a  recession over the next 12 months, the top economist for a  leading U.S. business group said on Tuesday.
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Three Asian banks&#39; heavy  exposure to the limping U.S. home loan sector reinforced global  credit jitters on Friday but Germany and Italy saw no signs of  new problems.
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Online advertising will be just fine without subprime.
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Stock futures were little changed on Monday as caution before a report expected to show softening in the housing sector was offset by optimism about the latest takeover activity.
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Playing the U.S. housing market may no  longer require actually buying a home.
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Investor's Business Daily - That&#39;s a little softer than the prior reading of 4% and estimates for a 3.9% annual rate. But it&#39;s still the best in a year. Net exports were a little weaker than prior estimates said. Still, trade and business investment offset another sharp drop in home building as well as sluggish consumer spending. Most economists expect slower 2nd-half growth as a credit crunch takes its toll on housing and other sectors.
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(12/15/04)-- Investors are not necessarily eager for higher interest rates, but at least the Federal Reserve&#39;s quarter-percent boost brought no surprises.
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Financial contagion from a credit crunch rooted in the U.S. subprime lending market seems not to be affecting emerging economies as much as crises in the past, the head of the Bank for International Settlements said on Wednesday.
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Stocks were flat on Friday as weaker-than-expected data on new home sales reinforced worries about the housing and mortgage markets, offsetting gains in the energy sector.
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UK blue chips were hardly changed at the close after Wall Street fluctuated, pleased about declining oil prices and Home Depot Inc.&#39;s stock-repurchase plan but hesitant as the direction of bond yields remained uncertain.