Can Congress Find a Way to Save Cash for Clunkers? - Time
Offering rebates of up to $4,500 to folks trading in their gas-guzzlers for new, more fuel-efficient cars, the program has been everything a stimulus package ought to be: a quick and efficient way to spur private-sector spending in support of a
Spanish lenders to use bank fund to merge-source - Reuters
MADRID, July 29 (Reuters) - Spanish banks Unicaja and Cajasur have told the Bank of Spain they need 990 million euros ($1.4 billion) of liquidity from a private-bank fund to successfully complete their merger plan, a source involved in the process
REITs Reclaim Stage - Structured Finance News
With private equity becoming harder to raise, investors hoping to clean up from the mortgage market’s wreckage are turning to a vehicle that has fallen in and out of vogue over the years: the real estate investment trust. On Thursday, a REIT set up
Expanding agri-credit - New Nation
AGRICULTURAL credit coverage is quite insignificant compared to the importance of the sector in the national economy. According to reports, only five percent of farmers have access to bank finance while 95 percent of them are forced to borrow money
Foreclosures Often More Profitable For Lenders - Huffingtonpost.com
The whining crybaby homeowners make me sick. I rent and nobody is going to modify my lease if I don’t make the rent. Further, I didn’t refinance to buy the new car, the vacation or send my kids to some ivy league school. And now Obama is sending my
The Budget Battle over Student Loans - Seekingalpha.com
President Obama and congressional Democrats have good reasons for wanting to eliminate federal guarantees for private student loans. They should keep in mind, however, that the resulting budget savings will likely be much smaller than official
European Banks Get More Confident - BusinessWeek
Banks in the euro area have relaxed restrictions on borrowers from companies and households, while demand for home loans has surged for the first time since early 2006, a fresh survey by the European Central Bank has found. “These developments
Another View: The student loan scam - San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The federal college loan program that pays private lenders a generous subsidy to make loans that are guaranteed by the government is a enormous waste of money that has long served more to enrich lenders than to help students. Nevertheless, the
Private investment at record low: report - ninemsn
Private investment has fallen to a record low as firms struggle with tight borrowing conditions that are likely to worsen during the next year, a leading forecaster says. Government infrastructure programs are responsible for almost all the
Can Congress Find a Way to Save Cash for Clunkers? - Time
Offering rebates of up to $4,500 to folks trading in their gas-guzzlers for new, more fuel-efficient cars, the program has been everything a stimulus package ought to be: a quick and efficient way to spur private-sector spending in support of a
Spanish lenders to use bank fund to merge-source - Reuters
MADRID, July 29 (Reuters) - Spanish banks Unicaja and Cajasur have told the Bank of Spain they need 990 million euros ($1.4 billion) of liquidity from a private-bank fund to successfully complete their merger plan, a source involved in the process
REITs Reclaim Stage - Structured Finance News
With private equity becoming harder to raise, investors hoping to clean up from the mortgage market’s wreckage are turning to a vehicle that has fallen in and out of vogue over the years: the real estate investment trust. On Thursday, a REIT set up
Expanding agri-credit - New Nation
AGRICULTURAL credit coverage is quite insignificant compared to the importance of the sector in the national economy. According to reports, only five percent of farmers have access to bank finance while 95 percent of them are forced to borrow money
Foreclosures Often More Profitable For Lenders - Huffingtonpost.com
The whining crybaby homeowners make me sick. I rent and nobody is going to modify my lease if I don’t make the rent. Further, I didn’t refinance to buy the new car, the vacation or send my kids to some ivy league school. And now Obama is sending my
The Budget Battle over Student Loans - Seekingalpha.com
President Obama and congressional Democrats have good reasons for wanting to eliminate federal guarantees for private student loans. They should keep in mind, however, that the resulting budget savings will likely be much smaller than official
European Banks Get More Confident - BusinessWeek
Banks in the euro area have relaxed restrictions on borrowers from companies and households, while demand for home loans has surged for the first time since early 2006, a fresh survey by the European Central Bank has found. “These developments
Another View: The student loan scam - San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The federal college loan program that pays private lenders a generous subsidy to make loans that are guaranteed by the government is a enormous waste of money that has long served more to enrich lenders than to help students. Nevertheless, the
Private investment at record low: report - ninemsn
Private investment has fallen to a record low as firms struggle with tight borrowing conditions that are likely to worsen during the next year, a leading forecaster says. Government infrastructure programs are responsible for almost all the