Fed Approves Plan to Curb Risky Lending
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The new rules are intended to protect would-be home buyers from unscrupulous lenders and, in a sense, from themselves.
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The Federal Reserve issues another $20bn of credit to ease money markets hit by the global lending squeeze.
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The US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the second time in nine days to ward off a recession.
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Fed moves don't always mean lower rates for borrowers.
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The Fed makes billions of dollars available to banks in an auction in a bid to ease credit-crunch concerns.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday  slashed benchmark U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters  of a percentage point in an emergency bid to lend support to a  weak U.S. economy faced with increasing turmoil in global  financial markets.
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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee unveiled legislation on Wednesday that would prohibit mortgage brokers and lenders from steering borrowers to high-cost loans.
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The Federal Reserve's move to slash interest rates by a half-percentage point signals that Chairman Ben Bernanke, fearing broad damage from recent market turmoil, preferred to risk doing too much rather than too little, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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Lenders will have to confirm that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making a loan under protections proposed by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, following defaults and losses on U.S. subprime mortgages this year.
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U.S. bank regulators issued new  standards for subprime mortgage lending Friday that includes  several new consumer protections.
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Bank of England committee unanimously backed cheaper borrowing costs earlier this month
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The thousands of Americans facing foreclosure because of the ballooning interest rates on their subprime mortgages would get help from the federal government under legislation overwhelmingly approved by senators Friday.
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The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday proposed new protections for high-cost mortgage borrowers to avoid a repeat of the loose lending standards that have put many Americans at risk of losing their homes.
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The Federal Reserve Board is weighing whether it should ban some mortgage lending practices that fueled the recent housing market boom, Fed governor Randall Kroszner told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday.
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The proposal by federal regulators comes as subprime mortgages have come under stress and scrutiny.
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The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators issued special guidance Tuesday urging loan service companies to work with borrowers in danger of defaulting on their home mortgages.
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U.S. lenders would have to determine  that a borrower can afford a mortgage before making the loan  under a Federal Reserve staff proposal on new regulations  released on Tuesday.