Archive for November 26th, 2007
Office supply woes deepen as Newell cautions on fourth quarter
Monday, November 26th, 2007Office supply woes deepen as Newell cautions on fourth quarter
Monday, November 26th, 2007Retail stocks slump as Black Friday joy fades
Monday, November 26th, 2007Sears offers $6.75 a share for Restoration
Monday, November 26th, 2007Credit woes sink Wall Street
Monday, November 26th, 2007Senator Schumer Seeks Probe of FHLB Loans to Countrywide
Monday, November 26th, 2007Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter on Monday
to Ronald A Rosenfeld, Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board,
expressing his “serious concern over the lending practices of the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, specifically in regard to the significant
volume of advances made to Countrywide Bank.”
Schumer stated that Countrywide was reported to hold $27
billion of “pay option ARMs” as of the end of September, over
one-third of all of the loans held for investment by the bank. The
Senator quoted a Wall Street Journal report that 91 percent of
Countrywide’s option ARMS issued last year were…
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Citigroup Knocks Builder Stocks and Takes Hit of Their Own
Monday, November 26th, 2007Late Monday morning one of Citigroup’s analysts, Stephen Kim,
downgraded the entire homeconstructing sector because he
could not find anything to suggest that the residential housing market
would improve until the second quarter of 2008.
Kim downgraded stocks of seven of the largegest
homeconstructers from a…
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