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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Bank deal set to go despite loan woes

  Dec 29, 2007 | via Customer Interaction Solutions 

  Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Dec. 29--First Volunteer Corp., the parent company of First Volunteer Bank, is moving ahead with plans to buy Benton Banking Co in Benton, Tenn., in a deal expected to close Monday, ...

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  Related Topix: Ocoee, TN, Delano, TN, Riceville, TN, Home, Mortgage, Polk County, TN

Regional Headlines

• More

  Friday | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

• First Horizon stock climbs after replacing CEO

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Tennessean 

  Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp., the parent company of First Tennessee, saw its stock soar in trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange after announcing it would replace its chief executive ...

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  Related Topix: Tennessee, Mortgage, Home

• First Horizon CEO to step down

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Knoxville News-Sentinel 

  Hours after the company's stock plunged by nearly 25 percent, First Horizon National Corp.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee

• Here's A Roundup Of The Progressive Blogs In Tennessee

  Monday Jul 14 | via SharonCobb 

  We blogs run from one end of the State of Tennessee to the other, and we're all working hard to turn our red state blue, so please support all of us.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee

• Agency works to help house Tennesseans

  Monday Jul 14 | via The Tennessean 

  Much of the focus by elected officials and the media during the housing crisis in our country has focused on the mortgage industry and homeowners and buyers.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee, Tennessee Government

National Headlines

• Report paints gloomy picture

  16 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

  17 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

  20 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?

  25 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

  27 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