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  • First Financial Northwest, Inc. Names Chief Financial Officer and ...

    MSN MoneyCentral - RENTON, Wash., Feb. 19, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- First Financial Northwest, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq:FFNW), the ... by forward-looking statements as a result of a wide variety or range of factors including, but not limited to, interest rate ...
    2008-02-19 03:49:00
  • Serbs torch border posts in northern Kosovo

    International Herald Tribune - Aside from a 60% unemployment rate, no higher educational institutions, large ... Serbian prime minister and president they lie their nation only to win in polls ... Union , is based on ” divide and conquer ” solely for its own self interest only ...
    2008-02-19 11:19:00
  • Spark Networks(R) Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Financial ...

    MSN MoneyCentral - In the event the Company elects to borrow under a base rate loan, the corresponding interest rates are the prime rate plus, 0.50%, 0.75% and 1.00%, respectively. The Company pays a 0.125% per annum commitment fee on all funds not utilized under ...
    2008-02-19 12:57:00
  • Balancing poverty relief with useful investment 

    Business Day South Africa - In 1997, the prime interest rate was 19%. By 2005, it had fallen to 10,5%, and today is about 14,5%. A more relaxed fiscal policy from 2000 plus economic growth also permitted rising expenditure. In 1997, government spending accounted for 28% of gross ...
    2008-02-19 10:37:00
  • Singapore shares lower at midday on profit-taking, oil price spike

    Forbes - ... oil-related stocks could get a boost, investors will worry that inflation could dampen hopes of another round of interest rate ... Macquarie MEAG Prime Real Estate Investment Trust (MMP REIT), meanwhile, jumped 12 cents to 1.20 dollars on hopes that a ...
    2008-02-19 09:18:00
  • PM Kevin Rudd defends promised $31 billion tax cuts

    News.com.au - He compared Labor's planned tax cuts to those proposed by former prime minister John Howard during the last Federal ... When interest rate hit 11+ %? By which time its too late. The economy and the property market will do a complete 180 degree turn ...
    2008-02-19 09:03:00
  • Detroit: highest home foreclosure rate in US

    World Socialist Web Site - ... with a poor credit history it has been documented that loan sellers often foisted these higher-rate loans on those qualified for prime or ... Referring to the state and federal government, Spano said, “Why don’t they freeze these interest rates? I ...
    2008-02-19 08:49:00
  • Weighs and means (Moneymanager)

    Rising interest rates and falling sharemarkets have sent many investors and home owners scurrying back to the drawing board. Is it better to increase mortgage repayments to clear the debt or pump more into super?
    2008-02-19 05:23:02
  • Forum Helps Homeowners Avoid Foreclosures (WSYR 9 Syracuse)

    Central New York wasn't hit by the sub-prime mortgage crisis as badly as other parts of the country. But experts say it's still important for homeowners to do anything they...
    2008-02-19 08:24:35
  • REAL ESTATE: Higher Conforming Mortgage Limit Won't Help As Many As Thought (Nasdaq)

    ORLANDO, Fla. (Dow Jones) -- Only 15 counties in the U.S. have a median house price high enough to qualify for the temporary increase in the maximum loan limits called for in the economic stimulus package, an indication that the big jump may not help as many home buyers and refinancers as originally expected.
    2008-02-19 08:39:22
  • British govt clears first hurdles for bank nationalisation bill (Muzi)

    Britain's Labour government on Wednesday rushed through the first steps towards passing a bill to nationalise troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock, the bank it had to step in to save six months ago.
    2008-02-19 09:39:58
  • IBQ partners with the Pearl Project development companies (AME Info)

    The International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) has teamed up with the leading development companies behind Qatar's glamorous Pearl Project to make luxury living available to more customers.
    2008-02-19 09:52:42
  • Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups (Crikey)

    Graham Mott, group general manager, Fairfax Radio Network, writes : Re. "ABC gazumped on Olympic radio rights?" (Yesterday, item 5). Your story today regarding Fairfax Radio having the broadcast Rights for the Beijing Olympics is wrong.
    2008-02-19 06:15:27
  • Rudd: We must tighten our belts (Daily Telegraph)

    KEVIN Rudd has called on the nation to show wage restraint and executives to tighten their belts as inflation threatens to push up interest rates.
    2008-02-19 07:45:00
  • Global econ outlook uncertain: BOJ Jan minutes (Straits Times)

    TOKYO - BANK of Japan (BOJ) policy board members expressed pessimism about the global economy, pointing out uncertainties are heightening as the US economy slows, minutes of a Jan 21-22 meeting at the central bank showed on Wednesday.
    2008-02-19 09:04:04