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Carnivals and Festivals Stock Market Prognosticator hosted Investing Carnival # 10 and included my post State Street Corporation (STT) Dividend Analysis $aving to Invest hosted "Money Hacks Carnival - The Print Media Edition"and included my post Introduction to Currency ETF’s That One Caveman...  

The historic seizure Sunday of mortgage finance titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is expected to bolster the nation's sinking housing sector by lowering mortgage rates and jump-starting the obscure background ...  

The US government took over ailing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday and placed them in a "conservatorship" in a bid to avert a financial system meltdown from the housing crisis.  

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sep. 7--Creditors are taking control of the troubled insurer that guaranteed the $77 million in bonds issued by a California state bank for Napa's Copia: the American Center for ...  

Persian Gulf shares fell, following global markets lower, led by real-estate companies, amid investor concern that the construction boom will slow.  

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson decided to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after a review found the beleaguered mortgage-finance companies used accounting methods that inflated their capital, ...  

Milo R. Stocks, 85, of Evansdale, died Wednesday, Sept. 3, at Allen Hospital. He was born July 19, 1923, in Raymond, son of George and Nellie Brown Stocks.  

The End for Fannie and Freddie Shareholders? A government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be announced as early as today, with shareholders of the common stock facing the grim prospect of having ...  

A column in the Sunday NYT purports to look at Why the Bear Is Alive and Well . While the main thrust of the column is on point -- namely, stocks remain too expensive for a true bear market bottom -- I have one ...  

Turkish sports club Galatasaray, said it plans to borrow as much as $170 million to finance a merger between its publicly traded merchandising unit, Galatasaray Sportif Sinai & Ticari Yatirimlari, and the ...  

Wall Street may be poised for a rally Monday as rumors swirled Friday about a possible weekend rescue plan for troubled mortgage finance titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  

Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tumbled in after-hours trading Friday following a report by The Wall Street Journal that the government may soon step in to provide a financial ...  

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen...  

Dejected investors sent stocks plunging Thursday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points after retailers and the government added to a mountain of bad economic news and devastated hopes ...  

Dejected investors sent stocks plunging yesterday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points after retailers and the government added to a mountain of bad economic news and devastated hopes ...