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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Fidelity buying 2.4% of its stock

  Jun 7, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  Fidelity D&D Bancorp is in the market for its own stock. With stocks of small banks battered for the misdeeds of bigger competitors, the Dunmore-based bank is buying back its own shares and taking them off the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Dunmore, PA, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lackawanna County sale aims to put properties back on tax rolls

  Jun 3, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  You may win a home with a market value of $106,350 at 1005 Oak St. in Taylor with an offer of just $3,175. At least, that is the starting bid on the property in a county judicial sale of three properties today ...

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Home Listing, Home, Taylor, PA, Mortgage, Carbondale, PA

• Report to be presented on Thursday upbeat

  May 3, 2008 | via Times Leader 

  Without giving away any secrets, Teri Ooms wants you to know that, despite problems nationwide, economic conditions are holding firm in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Mortgage, Home, Scranton, PA

• New Foreclosure Help

  Apr 16, 2008 | via PAHomepage.com 

  The door has closed on the dream of home ownership for hundreds of people in the Poconos this year.

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  Related Topix: Monroe County, PA, Foreclosures, Marshalls Creek, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lackawanna County, PA

• Foreclosures Up in Lackawanna County

  Mar 25, 2008 | via WNEP-TV Moosic 

  Foreclosures are up all across the country. At today's sheriff's sale in Lackawanna County dozens of foreclosed properties were auctioned to the highest bidders.

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Taylor, PA, Dickson City, PA

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Yesterday | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  4 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  5 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  5 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  8 min ago | via Portland Tribune 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  8 min ago | via The Post-Star 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Home Listing, 2008 Presidential Election