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Classic holiday stories can inspire during tough times (The Pantagraph)
Hard times have you down this holiday season? Take a trip to the library for some inspiration from treasured stories of Christmas past. The mortgage meltdown, job squeeze and clash between rich and poor evoke long-popular holiday tales with ghostly clarity, offering messages of hope, faith and togetherness during an intensely uncertain year, says William J. Palmer, an English professor and ...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-03 05:42 Hong Kong shares end morning up; 3G telecom gear makers jump-UPDATE (Interactive Investor)
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Share prices finished the morning higher as large-caps including HSBC and China Mobile were snapped up by bargain hunters following a rally on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve extended the terms of three emergency loan programs.
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Classic holiday stories inspire during tough times (AP via Yahoo! News)
Hard times have you down this holiday season? Take a trip to the library for some inspiration from treasured stories of Christmas past.
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Warnings of Fiscal Crisis Ignored (The Lakeland Ledger)
WASHINGTON | The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory...
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Classic holiday stories inspire during tough times (Baltimore Examiner)
This Jan. 15, 1970 file photo shows British actor Albert Finney, as he waves his cane while playing the title role in the film "Scrooge", at Shepperton Studios, near London. The film is a musical based on the Charles Dickens book "A Christmas Carol".
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Households struggling as 'mortgage stress' spreads (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Mortgage defaults are getting worse and more widespread, a new report by ratings agency Fitch Ratings says.
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Hope Now helps 2.7M homeowners stay put (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News)
(Bloomberg) -- Mortgage-servicing companies kept 225,000 U.S. homeowners out of foreclosure last month by modifying loan terms or securing new repayment plans, according to an industry survey.
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LeadPoint looks to attract more IFAs (e-Consultancy)
LeadPoint, the world’s first lead exchange marketplace, has reported that it plans to attract more IFAs to lead generation over the coming months. “We have over 1700 lead buyers currently signed up to LeadPoint. A significant number of these are IFAs and over the last few months this number has been...
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The IMF answers Lebanon's request (Zawya)
The authorities have requested follow-up Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance (EPCA) with an access of 12.5 percent of quota (SDR 25.375 million [$37.8 million]) to support their economic program for 2008-09 and continue benefiting from the macroeconomic and financial discipline provided by Fund involvement.
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Pandit Speaks on the Bailout (New York Times)
“We thought that this was an issue about confidence in Citi, not about capital, not about — not about our earnings. And somehow, we needed to make sure that we got control of the situation.”
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