Countrywide deal spurred by crackdown worries: report
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Countrywide Financial Corp's   decision to sell itself to Bank of America Corp  was  driven in part by fear of potential crackdowns by regulators,  the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining stock sales of the chief executive of Countrywide Financial Corp. , the nation's largest mortgage lender, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - Three former Countrywide Financial Corp.  executives agreed to plead guilty to charges they conducted insider trading in the mortgage lender's shares in the week leading up to a disappointing earnings report, federal prosecutors said.
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Mortgage lender Countrywide Financial  Corp  said on Monday that Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo  would relinquish his rights to receive around $37.5 million in  severance and other payments related to the company's sale to  Bank of America Corp .
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Bank of America Corp said on Friday that it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.
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Countrywide Financial Corp   said on Wednesday it helped more than 81,000 borrowers stay in  their residences and avert possible foreclosures in 2007, by  either modifying or otherwise restructuring their home loans.
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Countrywide, Britainâs largest real estate agent, said it had agreed to be taken private by the 3i Group in a deal that values the company at about $1.8 billion. The 3i Group, a private equity group based in London, bid about 551 pence ($10.76) a share for Countrywide, a premium of 90 pence to the stock price on Sept. 13, the day before the private equity company said it planned to approach Countrywide with an offer. Countrywideâs managing director, Harry Hill, and other managers will join 3i as shareholders and continue to run the business.
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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, 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 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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Countrywide Financial Corp  is working to structure another strategic investment similar to the deal Bank of America Corp  struck last month, the New York Post reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
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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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Bank of America Corp  on Friday said it agreed to acquire struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp  for about $4 billion 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 said on Thursday it has lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that will lead to widespread layoffs.
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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 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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Countrywide, the nationâs largest mortgage lenders, said Friday that it would lay off up to 20 percent of its workforce over the next three months.