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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

• Totteridge developer's homes set for auction

  Wednesday | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Ten partially built homes behind the first green at the Totteridge Golf Club could be auctioned off Sept.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Howard, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Greensburg, PA

• Foreclosure moratorium not likely

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Pittsburgh Tribune Review 

  It's not likely that Allegheny County's efforts to lessen the impact of mortgage foreclosures will include a court-ordered temporary moratorium on sheriff's sales.

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

• Beechview properties in need of developer

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  The Urban Redevelopment Authority's board could seek new proposals Thursday for four Beechview properties it has reclaimed from would-be developer Bernardo Katz.

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  Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Mortgage, Home, Lebanon, PA, Mount Lebanon, PA

• Soaring gas prices spur beginnings of a flight from suburbia

  Jun 7, 2008 | via Times Leader 

  When it took $45 to fill the gas tank in Eric Wallace's Honda Civic, he knew his days of driving 40 miles each way to work couldn't last.

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  Related Topix: Arnold, PA, Leetsdale, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Plan Hammered Out To Avoid Foreclosures

  Thursday Jul 3 | via ThePittsburghChannel 

  Allegheny County officials and advocates are trying to help residents avoid foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  8 hrs ago | 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 | 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

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  4 min ago | via The Herald 

  Economy needs stability before regulation By David Ignatius WASHINGTON -- Henry Paulson was in shirt sleeves Thursday afternoon in his office at the Treasury Department, tie loose at the collar, feet propped up ...

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

• Freddie Mac files with Us Sec, first step to capital

  7 min ago | via ABS-CBN News 

  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Freddie Mac won approval from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage finance company may seek $10 billion.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae

• Earnings Outlook: Bank of America heads parade firms aiming to show turnaround

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Is it turnaround time for banks? Bank of America Corp. BAC , , ) tops the list of major U.S. financial firms reporting earnings next week, and investors will be looking to see if the nation's second-largest ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Welcoming foreclosure

  8 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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