Whom Will the Subprime Plan Help?
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The Bush Administration's mortgage rate freeze sounds like a life raft for strapped homeowners, but it may do more harm than good
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President Bush today outlined his plan for helping troubled subprime borrowers keep their homes. The initiatives target hundreds of thousands of homeowners. The president said he would not bail out homeowners facing foreclosures or lenders with financial problems.
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H&R Block looks to put its subprime woes behind it.
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Troubles in mortgageland may get worse before they get better, especially for the so-called "subprime" borrowers whose spotty credit histories put them into more costly loans.
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President George W. Bush will  propose reforms on Friday intended to help homeowners with  subprime mortgages avoid default, his first public step to  address a crisis that has created turmoil in financial markets  around the world.
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Investor's Business Daily - Starting in Q4, federal and state regulators will cooperate to review the subprime lending practices of mortgage brokers and nondepository lenders to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws, the Fed said. Many mortgage brokers and thrifts are overseen by state, not federal, regulators. Fed chief Ben Bernanke will likely face criticism for failing to curb lending abuses when he appears before Congress on Wed. and Thu.
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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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U.S. state officials plan to issue guidance next week to tighten subprime mortgage lending by brokers and originators not regulated by the federal government, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors said on Friday.
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President Bush will announce plans on Friday to help homeowners with sub-prime mortgages avoid defaulting.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday that moves by some big banks to bring off-balance sheet investments tied to subprime mortgages back onto their books would help ward off a widespread credit crunch.
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The Bush administration today will propose a set of policies meant to help ease the wave of mortgage defaults, according to senior administration officials. It is the administration's first broad effort to deal with the rising number of home foreclosures, which are widely forecast to increase in the...
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A number of U.S. states are setting up  funds to help homeowners with risky subprime mortgages  refinance to more affordable loans in a bid to slow the rate of  home foreclosures, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web  site.
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Massachusetts officials today are expected to unveil a $250 million fund to help delinquent borrowers of subprime mortgages refinance into more affordable loans to prevent them from losing their homes to foreclosure.
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LONDON, Feb 10 -  - The extent of Europe's infection from the U.S. subprime mortgage virus is becoming clearer, even as the European Central Bank faces down calls for it to follow U.S. and UK counterparts by cutting interest rates.
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Plan to bail out struggling sub-prime mortgage defaulters soothes troubled financial markets.
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U.S. President George W. Bush will outline reforms on Friday to help struggling subprime mortgage borrowers and his central bank chief will deliver a speech which will be pored over for hints of a looming rate cut.
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Six of the biggest US banks are set to announce plans to offer more help to those struggling with mortgages.