Sales of newly constructed homes slumped in October to an annual rate not seen since 1991, according to government figures released Wednesday.
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Mortgage rates fell sharply yesterday after the administration announced that it will pump another $800 billion into credit markets to free up frozen consumer and mortgage lending.
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Sales of newly constructed homes slumped in October to an annual rate not seen since 1991, according to government figures released Wednesday.
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Ever since losing her executive secretary job last year, Carrie Seal-Stahl of Flat Rock, Mich. has grown produce on a suburban lot to supplement her family’s food budget.
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As the economy sinks deeper into a slump, Americans find it tougher to come up with additional money to chip away at their debts. And as the debt piles up, more consumers are getting calls from debt collectors looking for payment.
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I get a lot of e-mails assuming that I’m undercover out of fear that my peers will attack me. Fear has nothing to do with it. whether I were afraid of scathing e-mails from other advisers, I wouldn’t publish an e-mail address on that column. I can live with being unpopular.
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Mortgage lenders helped save a record 225,000 at-risk mortgage borrowers from losing their homes during October, according to a report issued Tuesday by a coalition of lenders, mortgage servicers, investors and counselors assembled to fight the foreclosure plague.
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Paychecks and payroll taxes are hardly the most exciting parts of running a business, so it’s not surprising that most owners tend to think about their payroll service only when it fails.
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Few homeowners can get excited about a costly maintenance project. But when John and Anne Harrison needed to put a new roof on their 50-year-old Oahu, Hawaii home four years ago, they saw an opportunity.
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