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In this economy, failure is an option
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe U.S. economy appears to be caught in a cycle of recurrent panic attacks. So many things have gone wrong, and so much anxiety has accumulated in the financial system, that nothing seems safe. As a result, no sooner has one crisis seemed to recede than...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., Warren Buffett, SunTrust Banks Incorporated, Personal Finance, Banking
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Many on Main Street can't see past gloom
MARKET BEATAre things really that bad? Is this the worst situation we've faced since the Great Depression? Is there any way out? Those questions must be asked thousands of times a day in private and public conversations about the financial system and the economy....Tags: Interior Policy, Government, Stocks, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Business Briefing: July 19, 2008
FREDDIE MAC REGISTERS TO SELL MORE SHARES | Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock. The McLean, Va., company requested, and...Tags: Fraud, Trials, Waste, Securities, Mortgages
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SEC rule temporarily limits short-selling
Bloomberg NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission is adopting a temporary rule that will limit the ability of traders to bet on a drop in the shares of brokerage firms, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the agency's chairman, Christopher Cox, told the Senate Banking...Tags: Securities, Georgetown, Sales, Freddie Mac, New York Stock Exchange
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FBI looking into possible fraud by IndyMac Bancorp.
The Associated PressThe FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac Bancorp Inc. for possible fraud, an official said today of the government's latest target following the collapse of the nation's subprime mortgage market. It was not immediately clear how long the FBI's...Tags: Fraud, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Corporate Crime, Loans, Financial and Business Services
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Fed slaps new rules on mortgage lenders
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe Federal Reserve clamped down hard on mortgage lenders Monday, issuing rules designed to curb the sorts of risky and deceptive lending practices that helped trigger the subprime mortgage crisis. The Fed's action, although criticized by some for not...Tags: Interior Policy, Loans, Mortgages, Credit Ratings, Litigation and Regulation
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U.S. exchanges may ask SEC for a break
Bloomberg NewsStock and options exchanges plan to seek an exemption for market makers to a rule aimed at preventing manipulation in shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 17 Wall Street firms, three people familiar with the matter said. The Securities and Exchange...Tags: Chicago Mortgages, Securities, Freddie Mac, Mortgages, Citigroup Incorporated
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FBI looking into IndyMac Bancorp.
Associated Press WriterThe FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac Bancorp Inc. for possible fraud, an official said Wednesday of the government's latest target following the collapse of the nation's subprime mortgage market. It was not immediately clear how long the FBI's...Tags: Fraud, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Financial and Business Services, Loans, Corporate Crime
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The Last Big U.S. Bailout?
Associated PressThe U.S. government is signaling it won't throw a lifeline to struggling financial companies — except for mortgage linchpins Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — marking a shift to a new and potentially more volatile phase of the credit crisis....Tags: Mortgages, Business Enterprises, Banking, Fannie Mae, Stocks
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U.S. offers plan to steady Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersActing to prevent a severe disruption of the mortgage market, the federal government stepped in Sunday with plans for a sweeping aid package designed to bolster confidence in battered home-loan giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Bush administration...Tags: Business, Credit Ratings, Mortgages, Government, Fannie Mae
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