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  • U.S. Leans on Subprime Lenders to Freeze Rates (New York Times)

    Treasury officials said they were pleased by the progress in persuading mortgage lenders to agree to a temporary rate freeze on subprime loans to avert foreclosures.
    2007-11-30 01:33:28

  • Rate-Freeze Talk Lifts Lenders

    Street.Com - Shares of the big mortgage lenders surged on Friday on news that regulators and industry executives were meeting to flesh out a plan to temporarily freeze interest rate resets on certain subprime adjustable-rate mortgage loans. Regulators and ...
    2007-11-30 12:02:00

  • Fed Rate Cut: It's Not If Or When, But How Much

    CNBC - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s latest analysis of the weakening economy makes another interest rate reduction at the Dec. 11 policy meeting a near certainty, say economists, but the size of that cut is very much up in the air. “If you read between ...
    2007-11-30 08:28:00

  • Brazil's Real Little Changed on Ptax Futures Settlement Rate

    Bloomberg - Brazil has a real interest rate of about 7 percent after subtracting inflation of 4.1 percent from the benchmark rate. In the U.S., the real interest rate is 1 percent after subtracting 3.5 percent inflation from the fed funds target. The ...
    2007-11-30 11:19:00

  • Chile Peso Rises to Two-Week High on U.S. Rate-Cut Speculation

    Bloomberg - Interest-rate futures traded on the Chicago Board of Trade suggest a 34 percent chance that the central bank will cut the 4.5 percent target rate for overnight lending between banks a half-percentage point at the Dec. 11 meeting, compared with 4 ...
    2007-11-30 11:27:00

  • Fed Chief Offers Hint of Rate Cut

    Washington Post - U.S. stock markets jumped sharply on Friday morning, as investors bet that recent remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke indicate interest rates will be cut again when the Fed meets in two weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average added ...
    2007-11-30 09:54:00

  • Fed debates whether to again cut interest rates

    Seattle Post Intelligencer - On one side of the debate are those, like Kohn, who think that there are times when it's necessary to use interest-rate cuts to stimulate the economy. One could look at this side as the short-term thinkers. On the other side are those who think that ...
    2007-11-30 12:02:00

  • Odds of near-term rate cuts tick up, but that cuts will continue dip

    Forbes - NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - The odds of interest rate cuts ticked up in the near-term, but slipped in the medium term, as dovish comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and weak construction spending data were balanced out by a stronger ...
    2007-11-30 08:35:00

  • Paris shares close up following US gains on hopes of Fed rate cut

    Forbes - PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Share prices closed higher, after comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting further interest rate cuts may be on the way sparked a surge in prices on Wall Street. The CAC-40 index finished up 72.46 ...
    2007-11-30 09:03:00

  • TREASURIES-Bonds down as stocks climb on rate cut forecasts

    Reuters - NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries fell on Friday as investors turned from the perceived safe-haven of government debt to buy riskier stocks after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bolstered hopes for an interest rate cut. Bernanke said ...
    2007-11-30 11:34:00

  • Investment and national banks rise on hopes for Federal Reserve rate ...

    CNBC - NEW YORK - Shares of national and investment banks jumped in midday trading Friday on increased hopes for an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a speech late Thursday tight credit markets, the current housing ...
    2007-11-30 09:46:00

  • Stocks mainly higher on rate cut hopes

    Miami Herald - Stocks rose unevenly Friday, largely extending the week's rally after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave investors more reason to believe further interest rate cuts are on the way. The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 60 points ...
    2007-11-30 10:15:00

  • Housing stocks bounce higher on potential for Fed rate cut, mortgage ...

    CNBC - NEW YORK - Word that interest rate cuts may be imminent and banks may freeze adjustable mortgage rates turbocharged housing stocks Friday. Most homebuilders jumped by more than 6 percent in midday trading, with D.R. Horton pacing the gainers, adding ...
    2007-11-30 08:56:00

  • Paris shares close up following US gains on hopes of Fed rate cut ...

    Forbes - PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Share prices closed higher, after comments from US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting further interest rate cuts may be on the way sparked a surge in prices on Wall Street. The CAC-40 index finished up 72.46 ...
    2007-11-30 10:01:00

  • S&P 500 rises as hope for rate cut continues; Ambac Financial ...

    CNBC - NEW YORK - Continued optimism of an interest-rate cut sent shares of Ambac Financial Group Inc. up in Friday midday trading and helped lift the Standard and Poor's 500. In a speech late Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central ...
    2007-11-30 09:39:00

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