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European Stocks Snap Two-Week Gain on Profit Concern; DSG Falls (Bloomberg.com)
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks snapped a two-week advance amid concern that an economic slowdown and record oil prices will curb earnings growth.
2008-04-12 01:36:17 -
Home tour features lower prices (The Morning Call)
Bethlehem teams with Wells Fargo bank to promote affordability. In an effort to showcase affordable homes in the Lehigh Valley and spark consumer awareness of mortgage and federal funding availability, local officials are teaming up with mortgage lender Wells Fargo to host an affordable home tour Sunday.
2008-04-12 01:49:13 -
National and Washington news in brief (San Jose Mercury News)
TEXAS Legal battle predicted against polygamist sect Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Friday that the state faces a "massive legal undertaking" in its prosecution of a secretive polygamist sect in West Texas, describing it as the largest and most far-reaching apparent sex abuse case
2008-04-12 01:50:44 -
Finance Officials Tackle Reforms (IWon - Money)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top financial leaders, faced with the biggest crisis to hit the global economy in at least a decade, are pledging to strengthen their regulation of banks and other financial institutions while anxiously hoping the slump in the United States will be a short one.
2008-04-12 01:50:55 -
Thesis project doubles as credit, shelter - roanoke.com (The New River Valley Current)
Two Tech architectural students have designed a house for Habitat for Humanity. BLACKSBURG -- Architecture students at Virginia Tech are building a unique home for their senior thesis credit, but the real reward, the students say, comes in the form of changing ideas about housing and providing a home for a family in need through Habitat for Humanity of the New River Valley.
2008-04-11 10:45:17 -
Saudi Economist Partly Blames US Adventurism in Iraq for Recession (MENAFN)
Saudi Economist Partly Blames US Adventurism in Iraq for Recession
2008-04-11 11:00:55 -
Fed bills would boost financial help to homes, businesses after flooding (Middletown Times Herald-Record)
The U.S. Senate is considering two bills that would increase financial assistance to home and business owners in the wake of major flooding.
2008-04-11 11:10:04 -
Clinton, Obama are too similar to call (The News & Observer)
The candidates differ by degrees on policies, which puts a spotlight on issues of character.
2008-04-11 11:33:06 -
Bear Sterns says assets plummeted (The Charlotte Observer)
Bear Stearns & Co.'s assets under management have shrunk 20 percent since the end of November, and stock and fixed income trading has plummeted to "well less" than half of activity levels in 2007 and the first quarter of this year, the company said in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday. The investment bank, which is being taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co., ...
2008-04-12 12:05:11 -
Answers to last-minute reader tax questions (Sun-Sentinel)
Still haven't filed your tax return? With three days to go until the IRS deadline, here is the final installment of our reader tax question-and-answer column.
2008-04-12 12:08:38 -
Kenneth Harney: Big mortgage lenders toughen up on deadbeat 'walkaway' owners (Arizona Daily Star)
WASHINGTON — The country's two largest sources of mortgage money have a blunt warning for anyone thinking about joining the growing "walkaway" trend, where homeowners stop making payments and months later send the house keys back to their lender: You will feel the pain.
2008-04-12 12:08:41