H&R Block CEO: Mortgage market may be worst since '30s
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H&R Block Inc  Chief Executive Mark Ernst on Thursday said the U.S. mortgage lending market may be facing its greatest crunch since the 1930s, when the country was in the Great Depression.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.
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H&R Block Inc said on Thursday the sale of its Option One Mortgage Corp. subprime lending unit may fall apart, as credit markets deteriorate and after its quarterly loss more than doubled.
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The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, is likely to get worse in the near term, economists said.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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The Halifax bank, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, predicts a much-feared fall in the rampant UK property market.
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H&R Block Inc., the largest U.S. tax preparer, on Thursday posted a fourth-quarter loss on the depressed value of a mortgage unit slammed by deterioration in the U.S. subprime market.
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Lehman Brothers sees a tough future for the home lender.
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The US housing downturn may have serious financial repercussions, experts warn, hitting investment funds linked to sub-prime lending.
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The U.S. housing market is nearing its bottom, which would end a run of declines that has hit companies across that sector, the chief executive of diversified manufacturer Illinois Tool Works Inc.  said on Tuesday.
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More than 30 percent of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last two years owe more on their mortgage than their house is currently worth, a housing market research company said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The average interest rate of 30-year mortgages in the United States declined to the lowest level in four months this week, US mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported on Thursday.
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Mortgages are complicated, and lending markets are in flux right now, but savvy, well-positioned consumers can still get the loans they need to buy, build, or refinance a home. They just need to pay attention to what's going on, says David Reed, a lending veteran based in Texas and co-author of "Mortgage Confidential."
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Investors looking for safety from declines in the mortgage and corporate bond markets may find it in the path of a hurricane.
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The housing market took a sharp turn  for the worse in September as prices tumbled and sales of  previously owned homes fell to a record low, battered by rising  foreclosures and tighter lending standards.
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A bottom has been hit in the decline  of U.S. home sales, said former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan  Greenspan on Wednesday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp.   Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo said the U.S. housing market is  unlikely to recover before 2009, as lenders and homeowners work  through oversupply, stagnating home prices, and the excesses of  recent lax lending standards in much of the mortgage industry.