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This is a recap. Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. said in a financial report that it has agreed to pay $550 million to settle separate class action lawsuits stemming from subprime loss disclosures. The Ohio State Teachers Retirement System, the lead plaintiff in one lawsuit brought on behalf of stock purchasers, agreed to [...]
Now that mortgage rates are low what does it take to refinance your home? A recent analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance found that the average score for borrowers whose loans were sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was 748 out of a possible 850. Clearly many borrowers with impaired credit will not [...]
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted during President George W. Bush’s time in office, in a way not seen since Herbert Hoover’s term during the Great Depression. That makes Bush the first president since Richard Nixon to preside over a declining Dow. In percentage terms, Bush’s 21.8 percent Dow drop is the worst showing [...]
“It’s not reassuring,” said Kenneth Scott, a professor of law and business at Stanford Law School and former general counsel of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. “There are more losses to be realized, but the question is the extent to which they are already reflected in values that banks are recording on their [...]
A Wisconsin bank was hit by losses and took money from the TARP program. Now they are laying off. Marshall & Ilsley Corp., Wisconsin’s largest bank, is cutting 830 jobs and slashing its dividend after posting a fourth-quarter net loss on borrower defaults. The stock dropped 18 percent in early trading.
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