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  • Top Ten Tips for Financing a Home (Today's News-Herald)

    (ARA) - Warmer weather and the conclusion of another school year are two signs that summer is almost here. While many Americans get ready for summer travel, barbeques, and other rites of the season, thousands will be taking advantage of a buyer's market by looking for a new place to call home.
    2008-07-10 05:04:59
  • Top Ten Tips for Financing a Home (Today's News-Herald)

    (ARA) - Warmer weather and the conclusion of another school year are two signs that summer is almost here. While many Americans get ready for summer travel, barbeques, and other rites of the season, thousands will be taking advantage of a buyer's market by looking for a new place to call home.
    2008-07-10 05:04:59
  • Fitch Affirms Heinz's IDR at 'BBB'; Rates New Issues; Outlook Stable - PR Inside

    --Commercial paper 'F2'. H.J. Heinz Co. of Canada, Ltd. --Short-term IDR 'F2'; --Commercial paper 'F2'; The Rating Outlook is Stable. At fiscal year end April 30, 2008, Heinz's total debt was $5.2 billion. Concurrently, Fitch has assigned a 'BBB ...
    2008-07-10 12:56:00
  • FBR Group to Report Second Quarter 2008 Results - MSN MoneyCentral

    Investors wishing to listen to the earnings conference call at 9:00 A.M. U.S. EDT, Thursday, July 24, 2008, may do so via the Web at: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=71352&p=irol-irhome . Replays of the webcast will be available after the ...
    2008-07-10 02:57:00
  • Bank of England holds rates steady - News.com.au

    THE Bank of England held its key short-term interest rate at 5.0 per cent overnight in the face of high inflation, sliding economic growth and a housing market downturn. Analysts said Britain's economy needed a rate cut to boost growth, but the BoE ...
    2008-07-10 11:51:00
  • Dollar mixed after Britain freezes rates - CNN Money

    FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The U.S. dollar was mixed against the euro and the pound Thursday after the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged, signaling with its peers that inflation was more pressing than growth. The 15-nation euro bought $1 ...
    2008-07-10 02:00:00
  • Free car with your new home: slump in housing market forces desperate offers (Times Online)

    Forget slashing the asking price, offer a free car instead. This is the approach that a developer in Newquay is hoping will help him to beat the sales slump as he tries to sell 65 flats.
    2008-07-10 02:44:26
  • FBR Group to Report Second Quarter 2008 Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

    Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. today announced that the company will release results for the second quarter of 2008 before the market opens on Thursday, July 24, 2008.
    2008-07-10 03:00:00
  • RBS Insurance sale price may suffer after Zurich withdrawal (The Herald)

    Royal Bank of Scotland's efforts to sell its Direct Line and Churchill insurance operations suffered a potentially huge setback last night when Zurich Financial, touted widely as the frontrunner in the auction of these businesses, declared it was pulling out.
    2008-07-10 03:01:19
  • Score Media achieves record revenue and earnings in Q3 2008 (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)

    Score Media Inc. announces its financial results for the three and nine months ended May 31, 2008:
    2008-07-10 03:05:00
  • Eurozone Growth Continues to Slow (AME Info)

    The currency market was fairly quiet today with the US dollar rallying against some currencies and falling against others. Jobless claims were the only piece of data released and filings for unemployment dropped by 58k to the lowest level in 3 months.
    2008-07-10 03:25:41
  • Does A Bailout Loom For Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac? (NPR)

    The mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took another hit on Wall Street Thursday, after a former Fed official suggested the companies may need a government bailout. Others are weighing in, too.
    2008-07-10 03:26:56
  • Bajaj Auto net profit takes a hit (The Telegraph)

    Mumbai, July 10: Bajaj Auto Ltd, the country’s second largest two-wheeler manufacturer, today reported a 4.37 per cent decline in net profit for the first quarter of the current year ended June 30. Net profit came down to Rs 175 crore from Rs 183 crore in the same period last year.
    2008-07-10 03:33:12
  • Physicians Formula Successfully Lowers Borrowing Rate by Amending Credit Agreement (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

    AZUSA, Calif.----Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. today announced that Physicians Formula, Inc., the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, has entered into an amendment to its existing senior credit agreement with Union Bank of California, N.A. .
    2008-07-10 03:48:00
  • I-T mops up cool Rs 60 crore from IPL (The Economic Times)

    The IPL is a money-spinner even for the government. The income-tax department, which collected about Rs 60 crore in 2007-08 from the tourney’s stakeholders, expects to collect between Rs 160 crore and Rs 200 crore in the current fiscal.
    2008-07-10 03:56:18