Countrywide to modify up to $16 billion of mortgages
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Tuesday offered to refinance or modify up to $16 billion of adjustable-rate mortgages through the end of 2008 to help about 82,000 borrowers who face higher payments stay in their homes.
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Bank of America Corp  is in advanced talks to buy struggling Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, several people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Tuesday said it made 15 percent more home loans in May as the pace of refinancings increased, though the foreclosure rate doubled.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  said on Friday the U.S. housing slump led to a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss, but the largest U.S. mortgage lender expects to return to profitability this quarter as it slashes jobs and stabilizes its operations.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Thursday it has lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that has reduced loan demand and will lead to widespread layoffs.
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Bank of America Corp on Friday said it agreed to acquire struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for about $4 billion  (2.04 billion pounds) in stock, a move that could help avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Countrywide Financial Corp   posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its  shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it  expects to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and  has weathered the worst of the housing downturn.
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Countrywide Financial Corp ,  whose shares have tumbled amid worries about the largest U.S.  mortgage lender's survival prospects, on Wednesday said it made  more loans than it expected in the fourth quarter, though  homeowner foreclosures and delinquencies rose.
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Boston housing activist Bruce Marks has persuaded Countrywide Financial Corp. , the nation's largest mortgage lender, to let his nonprofit reengineer some of its least affordable loans.
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Countrywide Financial Corp.,  the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Monday that  foreclosures rose to a five-year high and turmoil in the  subprime market may hurt earnings, and its shares fell.
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Bank of America Corp  said on Friday it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.
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Countrywide, the nationâs largest mortgage lenders, has been struggling to deal with the troubles in the mortgage industry.
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Bank of America Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Countrywide Financial for $4 billion in stock, a deal that both rescues the country's largest mortgage lender and expands the financial services empire of the nation's largest consumer bank
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Bank of America has agreed to buy troubled Countrywide Financial Corp. for $4 billion, rescuing the nation's largest mortgage lender from possible bankruptcy and adding to a financial industry shakeout that has rattled global markets.
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Countrywide, the troubled lender that came to symbolize many of the excesses of the subprime mortgage crisis, is negotiating a sale to Bank of America.
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Countrywide Financial Corp ,  the battered mortgage lender being acquired by Bank of America  Corp , posted a $422 million fourth-quarter loss on  Tuesday, hurt by mounting defaults in a sinking housing market.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Wednesday that foreclosures and late payments rose in December to the highest on record, though it made more loans than expected in the fourth quarter.