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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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Local Headlines

• Japanese Foreign Minister to visit UAE, Kuwait, Uzbekistan

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via UzReport 

  Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga said he will visit the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Uzbekistan this week to discuss the oil market and encourage the countries to increase investment in Japan, ...

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• As economic crisis looms, Lawrence workshop aims to help homeowners

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA 

  As bad as the foreclosure crisis is in the city and elsewhere around Essex County, it is only going to get worse, a group of local and state officials told The Eagle-Tribune yesterday.

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• Three-day workshop on Lawrence's future cost $30K

  Monday Jul 14 | via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA 

  City officials spent three days at a hotel conference center in Westford at a cost of $30,000 working on a plan for the city's future called Vision 2020.

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• Committee On Capital Markets Regulation to Study 'Fundamental Issues in the Securitized Debt Markets'

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Earth Times 

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 10 MA-CCMR-New-Study CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation , an independent and nonpartisan research organization formed to improve the regulation ...

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• Business Briefing

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Los Angeles Times 

  LOANS More past due on home equity lines Consumers fell behind on loans secured by their homes at the fastest pace in two decades in the first quarter, signaling deeper distress in the U.S. economy, the ...

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Regional Headlines

• Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May

  Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0 

  Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.

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• Mass. foreclosures set another record

  Monday Jun 30 | via Boston Globe 

  Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts broke another record last month, the Warren Group said today.

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• Mass. exodus mostly a myth

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Boston Herald 

  Both the Herald and the Globe ran columns based on the study's finding that Massachusetts has a large population loss - and citing that loss as proof that Massachusetts residents generally share the writers' ...

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• Mass. home sales, prices are still falling

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Lowell Sun 

  Home sales and median prices continue to decline on a year-over-year basis, but some are starting to see a silver lining to the housing slump.

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• Median sales price falls 9.2 percent

  Monday Jun 23 | via Boston Globe 

  The median selling price in May for single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 9.2 percent to $322,500, compared with $355,000 in May 2007, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported today The volume of ...

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National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

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

  7 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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• One year of the global financial crisis

  7 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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• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  10 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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• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  10 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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