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Improve Your Credit Score (Forbes) What you thought was a good FICO score could keep you locked out of getting a loan. Here's what to do. us.rd.yahoo.com
General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Shopping-mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders. us.rd.yahoo.com
Pilgrim's Pride Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (CattleNetwork.com) Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (PPC), the nation's largest chicken producer, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, two days before a 30-day grace period on a missed $25.7 million interest payment was set to expire. us.rd.yahoo.com
General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (Chicago Sun-Times) WASHINGTON---- Troubled shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the Chicago-based company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders. us.rd.yahoo.com
Mexican economy in the balance of carmakers rescue (Tiscali) SILAO, Mexico (Reuters) - The spectre of bankruptcy hanging over automakers in Detroit is also stoking fears in Mexico, whose car industry is heavily dependent on the U.S. economy. us.rd.yahoo.com
An S&L's Path To The Cliff (Forbes) The government stood by while Downey Savings met a grisly fate. us.rd.yahoo.com
General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (INO News) (AP:WASHINGTON) Troubled shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. is getting a two-week extension on $900 million in debt that had been scheduled to come due last week as the company works to stave off bankruptcy and negotiate longer-term extensions with lenders. us.rd.yahoo.com
UAW grants concessions, exec warns of depression (AP via Yahoo! News) Worried about their jobs and warned that the cost of failure could be a depression, hundreds of leaders of the United Auto Workers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to make concessions to the struggling Detroit Three, including all but ending a much-derided program that let laid-off workers collect up to 95 percent of their salaries. us.rd.yahoo.com
Investor Sues to Block Mortgage Modifications (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) The battle over the mass modifications of troubled mortgages has begun in earnest. On Dec. 1, William Frey, a private investor in mortgage-backed securities, filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court alleging that the proposed modification of some 400,000 home loans originally underwritten by the defunct lender Countrywide Financial is illegal. us.rd.yahoo.com
Pursuing U.S. Aid, G.M. Accepts Need for Drastic Cuts (New York Times) General Motors , increasingly desperate for a federal bailout to stave off financial collapse, told Congress on Tuesday that it was willing to drastically shrink every aspect of its operations to ensure its long-term survival, The New York Times’s Bill Vlasic and David M. Herszenhorn reported. us.rd.yahoo.com
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