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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

Regional Headlines

• Utah job growth falls below 1%

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Job losses in the residential real-estate industry continue to take their toll on Utah's economy, pushing employment growth last month below the 1 percent mark for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Foreclosures, Housing, Sundance Film Festival, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah job growth at 5-year low as construction work dips

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Employment growth in Utah has slowed to a crawl, dipping below the 1 percent mark last month for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Utah Government, Utah, Housing

• Entrepreneurial Spirit Key to Utah Valley's Success, Experts say

  Friday Jul 11 | via Utah Business 

  Slowing commercial and residential real estate markets, sluggish tourism levels and transportation troubles are some of the issues facing Utah Valley, as well as much of the state.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Brigham Young University, Utah

• Bankruptcy in Utah up 42#x25 year-to-date

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Deseret Morning News 

  He sees it every day at work: adults with a bankruptcy in their past needing to re-establish their credit to make a major purchase.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Credit Card Debt, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah foreclosures up 141#x25

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Deseret Morning News 

  The number of Utah homeowners who received a foreclosure filing in June jumped nearly 141 percent, compared with the same month last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Provo, UT, Orem, UT, Utah County, UT, Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Report paints gloomy picture

  10 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  11 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  13 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Why would Fed delay revision of rules?

  19 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  The Federal Reserve Board has signed off on new rules to help the rising tide of mortgage delinquencies by barring lenders from making loans without proof of a borrower's income and requiring lenders to ensure ...

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

• No slowdown for the downtown

  20 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion