It's hard to find controlled experiments in finance. But they exist. East and West Germany, North and South Korea, Chile and Venezuela. In crossing a border, you can immediately see the difference in economic output and financial well-being from one country to the next, based on variations in tax and
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Investors in bitcoin and other virtual currencies would lose a lucrative tax break under the Republican tax bill that's on its way to President Donald Trump's desk. New limits in the bill would bar cryptocurrency owners from deferring capital gains taxes when trading one type of virtual currency for another
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Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? How many days can I honor my New Year's resolutions? Is Bitcoin's rise more than an ephemeral rush? These are the existential questions of our age. I took the last one directly from a fine cover story in the new issue of Fortune by Jen Wieczner and Robert
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The government has allocated Rp 4.5 trillion (US$ 315 million) to implement a mortgage interest subsidy for low-income households next year. The Housing Finance Fund Management Center (PPDPP), which falls under the Public Works and Housing Ministry, signed an agreement on Thursday with 40
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“THE OVERALL COST of the tracker mortgage scandal “will be in excess of €1 billion”, Fianna Fail's spokesperson for Finance Michael McGrath has said. McGrath said that the approach from banks to the scandal has been “self-defeating”, saying that throughout the investigation the banks have “been
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So there's no clear way forward for the unhappy region or Spain as a whole. That question mark will hang over the economic recovery. Want to receive this post in your inbox every morning? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more.
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A settlement would let AT&T avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to creditors to amend the terms of bonds issued to finance the merger, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. Whether or not AT&T's employee bonuses are an olive branch to the Trump administration, there are better reasons
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“Homes that are properly prepared, positioned and priced will sell whether it snows or not,” said Gosselin, who also owns Gosselin Realty Group in York. “Buyers tend to be serious and pre-qualified for mortgage financing.” Penobscot County home sales were up 7.83 percent to 468 units and the median
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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ares Management, L.P. (NYSE:ARES), a leading global alternative asset manager, announced today that it has held the final close for its junior capital direct lending fund, Ares Private Credit Solutions (“APCS” or the “Fund”). The Fund held its final closing with $3.4
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From New York to London to Sonoma and, yes, even North Dakota, here are the year's top plates, from food editor Kate Krader. By. Kate Krader. @kkrader More stories by Kate Krader. December 20, 2017, 12:19 PM PST. It's been a very good year for rice. The grain is normally on the bottom of my carbs
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Ares Management, L.P. announced that it has held the final close for its junior capital direct lending fund, Ares Private Credit Solutions. The Fund held its final closing with $3.4 billion of total commitments, which exceeded the initial fundraising target of $2.5 billion. The commitments are from a global and
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A tour guide leads a group of tourists from China past the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Photographer: Dario Pignatelli/Bloomberg. Thailand, land of golden temples, white-sand beaches, smiling hosts. Or of overcrowded airports, epic traffic jams and littered seashores. Facing a deluge of Chinese tourists
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's effective deputy, Damian Green, resigned after an official investigation found that he'd made misleading statements about pornography on one of his parliamentary office computers, and left questions unanswered about his behavior towards a female activist.
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AEI's Alex Brill and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Maya MacGuinea discuss the passing of the tax plan. President Donald Trump plans to sign the tax bill on Jan. 3 to ensure automatic spending cuts to Medicare and other programs don't take effect, according to a House Republican aide
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Data is expected to show slower economic growth across Canada for the second half of 2017 and, along with it, a slowdown in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises, according to analysis firm PayNet. It found a downturn in borrowing among SMEs for the month of September, with the index
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It was a year for bitcoin, technology stocks and the power consolidation of China's Xi Jinping. Those were some of the most popular topics for people boning up on issues important to finance and business through Google searches in 2017. While there was a spike of interest in the potential for Spain's
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In this month's Lending Impact, we look into the past, present and future of small businesses in a Funding Circle Christmas Carol. There's also our latest case study, where you can meet the founder of The Creative Whisky Company, and finally discover six Funding Circle businesses that will help you get
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The new Republican tax bill is delivering an unwelcome message to some Americans about the value of homeownership: Tax breaks are still available, but only up to a point. One of the most controversial aspects of the bill is its $10,000 cap on deducting state and local taxes (SALT), which includes local
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How do I switch or change my checking account to First Merchants Bank? It's easy when you follow these simple steps. Step 1: Open your new account. Open a new account online or stop by in person at one of our banking center locations.
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For Herald Sun Realestate on. Rentvester Tim Guest credits renting to his financial success. Picture: Supplied. SAVVY Melburnians could have their property cake and eat it too. For just $50 a week, keen Melbourne property investors could enter the market, according to rentvestor Tim Guest. Mr Guest
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There's a new leader in the sweepstakes for the zaniest name change in the crypto craze. Long Island Iced Tea Corp. shares rose six-fold after rebranding itself Long Blockchain Corp. It's the latest in a near-daily phenomenon sweeping the stock market, where obscure microcap companies reorient to
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Mortgage-giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will retain some of their quarterly earnings as part of an agreement between the Trump administration and their regulator to allow them to build a small capital buffer against future operating losses. Under the agreement, announced Thursday, the companies
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This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. Sign up here. Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? How many days can I honor my New Year's resolutions? Is Bitcoin's rise more than an ephemeral rush? These are the existential questions of our age.
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Timeshare Escrow & Title is fully licensed and appointed to perform timeshare closings for customers as a title agency for Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, the largest title insurance agency in the US. The company actively performs timeshare title transfers in a total of 23 states, Mexico, The
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Vilnius, Lithuania, 2017-12-21 09:04 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — INVL Baltic Real Estate announces forecast results, which compilation was evaluated by PricewaterhouseCoopers UAB. According to the forecast results, INVL Baltic Real Estate plans that in 2017, the company's net operating income
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Total mortgage application volume fell 4.9% on an adjusted basis during the week ended Dec. 15, with applications for refinances dropping 3% and applications for purchases plummeting 6% compared with the previous week, according the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
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Peter Grauer, the chairman of Bloomberg LP, is a senior independent non-executive director at Glencore. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners. To contact the author of this story: David Fickling in Sydney at dfickling@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the Aga Khan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Photographer: Sean Kilpatrick/CP via AP Photo. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke conflict of interest rules when he and his family vacationed on a Bahamas island owned by the Aga Khan,
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Thumbnail. December 21, 2017 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: RDFN) — The 2017 housing market was the most competitive for homebuyers since 2013, according to a new analysis from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the next-generation real estate brokerage.
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Shortly before passing a far-reaching but unpopular bill on a party line vote, the Speaker of the House assured critics that people would like it once they felt its benefits. That was 2010, and it didn't work out for Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat in charge of the House at the time, or for the Obamacare
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E*Trade Financial Corp. said it will allow customers to trade bitcoin futures from Cboe Global Markets Inc., joining competitors in offering the contracts after monitoring their debut earlier this month. Cboe futures are “now available,” the New York-based online brokerage wrote on its website late
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Are you a woman into blockchain or artificial intelligence? The European Central Bank may just be the place for you. In a job posting on its website on Thursday, the ECB said it was looking to hire a specialist in distributed ledger technologies for its infrastructure and payments division. Being female
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Speaking to The Adviser's sister publication, SMSF Adviser, Thrive Investment Finance owner Samantha Bright said that SMSF lending is now the most heavily scrutinised and regulated type of lending, and that there are some dodgy practices that occurred in the past that could be cleaned up by the
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Looks likes corporate America is trying to sway public opinion on the unpopular tax bill — or at least gain favor with the president. Donald Trump speaks during a tax bill passage event in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 20. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg. Donald Trump has touted the legislation as
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At Triad Business Journal, we're eager to jumpstart the new year by recognizing some of the region's most energetic and impactful young professionals. Today, we reveal the 40 honorees in the 2018 class of our annual 40 Leaders Under Forty awards program. We won't officially recognize these
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Bitcoin cash, a spinoff that emerged in August following a heated debate in the cryptocurrency community over how to make transactions more efficient, is on the brink of overtaking ether as the second most valuable digital coin by market value. It wasn't supposed to go like that. For months, Ethereum
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South Korean investigators are looking into North Korea's possible involvement in the hack of a Seoul-based cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed this week, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Yapian, the owner of bitcoin exchange Youbit, said Tuesday that it would close and enter
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The U.S. Supreme Court said President Donald Trump's administration doesn't have to immediately turn over documents consulted by government officials before they acted to end a deferred-deportation program for some young immigrants. The high court, without published dissent, said a federal trial
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China's banking regulator said on Thursday it will effectively fend off credit risks in the banking sector and appropriately address hidden local government debt risks. China will also effectively control risks in the property market, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said on its
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SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Singapore's authorities are concerned the island-state's property market could be setting itself up for a fall. A series of aggressive land deals by developers, against the backdrop of rising apartment sales and the first quarterly rise in private home prices for four years, was
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MANILA- Banks have announced their operating schedules for the Christmas and New Year holidays. BDO. All BDO branches will be closed on Dec. 25 (Monday), and January 1, 2018 (Monday). Shortened banking hours will be implemented in select mall branches on Dec. 24 (Sunday) and Dec.
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Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant, the Russian steep pipe maker, has signed a €150m unsecured syndicated loan, the eighth from Russia this year. By Bianca Boorer; 01:15 PM. The four year facility, signed on Tuesday, has tranches of €65m and $35m, priced at 190bp over Euribor and 210bp over Libor.
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Haynes International, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAYN) Director Dawne S. Hickton purchased 2,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 14th. The stock was purchased at an average price of $31.50 per share, with a total value of $63,000.00. Following the purchase, the director
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Most of the bad debt is held by state-run lenders, which are suffering after years of bad lending decisions. … said the injection needed to be accompanied by steps to restructure state-run banks, as well as action to improve corporate governance, and a reduction of the government's stakes in the lenders.
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The project was seen as part of the city's efforts to curb housing prices and attract talent. As of Dec. 15, a total of 282,900 university graduates have landed jobs in the city, up nearly 200 percent of the same period last year. China has recently taken a set of measures to stabilize the housing market and
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Federal National Mortgage Association (OTC: FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTC: FMCC) shares are rocking Thursday after the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to retain a portion of their
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Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France, relies on the two networks of cooperative commercial banks which are autonomous and complementary: Banque Populaire currently has 15 while Caisses d'Epargne has 16. In the housing finance domain, BPCE relies on Crédit Foncier.
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International Cons A (ICAGY) shares are seeing solid buying inflow as the Chaikin Money Index is holding above zero. If the price consistently closes in the upper half of the daily range on high volume the indicator would read above zero and indicates a strong market. When the indicator stays above
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Zackson, who has worked on real estate deals with Paul Manafort, called Maloney a “shim-sham con man” and accused him of dropping the ball on a planned redevelopment of the Long Island City Clock Tower. And finally, AmBase sued Maloney, partner Michael Stern and Spruce Capital Partners for
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“30-year fixed mortgage rates have been bouncing around in a narrow 10 basis points range since October,” said Len Kiefer, Freddie Mac deputy chief economist. “The U.S. average 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased one basis point to 3.94% in this week's survey.” “The majority of our survey was
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Given the higher land prices and anticipated market recovery, new private home prices will likely be higher in 2018. By Elizabeth Choong. The private residential market is widely expected to perform better in 2018 due to improved consumer sentiments. According to PropertyGuru's latest Consumer
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Not surprisingly one of the top trends is still security and is often cited as being the major reason for smart home adoption. Home security systems tend to be more in demand compared to other smart home devices and it's easy for consumers to understand how a security system will help them and what it
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The institutional investor owned 152,842 shares of the basic materials company's stock after purchasing an additional 16,007 shares during the period. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC's holdings in International Paper were worth $8,685,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other institutional
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German carmaker BMW (bmwyy) aims to more than double the number of electric and hybrid vehicles it has sold to 500,000 by the end of 2019, Chief Executive Harald Krüger told German weekly WirtschaftsWoche. In 2018 alone, deliveries of electrified vehicles are to rise by a “medium double-digit
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A lawyer for UBS Group AG urged a New York jury to reject the tale of a former senior commercial mortgage-backed securities strategist who claimed he was fired for refusing to let the Swiss bank's traders influence his research reports. Trevor Murray alleged he was dismissed in 2012 for blowing the
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TOKYO, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Japan's Nikkei share average ended down on Thursday, dragged lower by weakness in banking shares though off earlier session lows. The Nikkei finished down 0.11 percent, or 25.62 points, at 22,866.10. The broader Topix erased losses and eked out a 0.08 percent gain to
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In his 24+ years of residential mortgage lending experience, he has originated mortgage loans, led large mortgage teams at varying levels of management for leading mortgage originators, and, most recently was the National Sales Director for an independent mortgage company in the DFW marketplace
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — National Asset Services, (NAS) a leading commercial real estate management company, has expanded its nationwide property management portfolio with the addition of a multifamily community near Columbus, Ohio. NAS has assumed asset
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Let's start the morning with a bombshell new financing round: Didi Chuxing, China's ride-hailing company, raised $4 billion in fresh funding. The fundraising values Didi at approximately $56 billion and lifts cash reserves to $12 billion. Investors include the Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Capital.
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After years of political stalemate over the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, things are beginning to move in Washington. The big news for investors is that the ultimate endgame for housing finance is starting to take shape in Congress. In a surprise announcement on Thursday morning, the Treasury
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Last month, the U.S. median rent was up by 2.4 percent from one year earlier, reaching a new high of $1,435 per month, the highest median rent Zillow has ever reported. Zillow also noted there was synergy between rent prices and incomes, with the latter increasing 2.5 percent year-over-year during
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants everyone to know that he would only call someone an “idiot” if people were mistakenly under the impression that this person is smart—oh, and he really does love most trains, subways, and London buses. Taken out of context, Musk's Thursday
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The abrupt demise of a major real estate data provider has put Columbus real estate and development leaders in a bind. Missouri-based Xceligent Inc. shut down and declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy late last week, opting to liquidate its assets after a year-long legal battle with competitor CoStar Group
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The housing market already faces a shortfall of affordable units. This tax break at the very least doesn't improve the situation, and worse, could tighten supply, Redfin forecast. Because apartment buildings generate income, developers may see the tax change as a new incentive to build these units
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The government-controlled mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are to be allowed to build capital cushions of $3bn each, a policy shift that could alter the calculus over reforms of two institutions that are integral to the US housing market. The new arrangement, agreed by the US
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Forecast One BH What a year that was. Admit it—some years are less memorable, but not so for 2017. We had the greatest seller's market ever and then the lowest home inventory in what seems to be forever. Interest rates remained low but are now rising, and refinancing plummeted as expected.
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Building upon a slew of stellar housing data points reported over the last month, data released this week measuring groundbreaking for new home construction boasted yet another multi-year high. The annual pace of both housing starts and building permits increased impressively and were buoyed by
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants now under government conservatorship, will keep $3 billion each as a capital buffer, a reversal of a directive from Congress, its regulator and the Treasury Department each confirmed Thursday. That conservator arrangement, struck in 2012 and
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates move up. Key mortgage rates moved up slightly over … “The majority of our survey was completed prior to the surge in long-term interest rates that followed the passage of the tax bill,” said Len Kiefer, deputy chief economist for Freddie Mac. “If those rate increases stick, we'll
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Vwr mortgage. See the latest EPS estimates. 6 4775693562. 907. 9 119929136884. 6 7752214704. Dechert LLP is an international law firm of more than 900 lawyers with top-ranked practices in corporate and securities, complex litigation, finance and real estate High Street Capital: TLC, headquartered
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For the first time during Trump's first year in office, the GOP-controlled Senate Banking Committee refused to confirm one of the president's federal nominees. Two committee Republicans, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, joined with Democrats to reject Scott
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Payday lending titan Scott Tucker now faces a new indictment for failing to report millions in income. The 55-year-old Leawood businessman has been charged with one count of filing a false tax return, which joins a growing list of previous charges, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's office in
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LANDBAY is set to lend out a record £10m this month, thanks to new institutional investment into the peer-to-peer platform. John Goodall, chief executive of the buy-to-let specialist, told Peer2Peer Finance News that Landbay will have lent out almost £40m this year, of which £23m was lent out in the last
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President Donald Trump may have to wait until after the New Year to sign a sweeping tax reform bill to avoid triggering automatic cuts to Medicare and other programs. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which Congress approved this week, is a $1.5 trillion package that slashes taxes for businesses
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The results of the vote on Jerusalem are seen on display boards at the General Assembly hall, on December 21, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images. By Andrew Nusca. 12:39 PM EST. The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday declared the
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Xinyuan Real Estate Co., Ltd. (NYSE:XIN)[Trend Analysis] shares price build up 7.00% during latest trading session. … ratio of 23.10% for trailing twelve months and operating margin is calculated as 8.90%, these are a better detectors to find consistency or positive/negative trends in a firm's earnings.
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In fact, what was merely speculation in 2017, may just become reality in the New Year. Helping us predict what will be trending in the upcoming year, Kenco, a provider of integrated logistics solutions, real estate services and material handling equipment, compiled insights from their thought leaders on
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Within a few months this year the central bank had to rescue three major banks – Otkritie, B&N and Promsvyazbank – after shutting hundreds of troubled lenders in the past few years as it cleans up the country's banking sector. The central bank has repeatedly said it would sell the banks it rescued back to
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Editor's note: This is part 2 in a series of stories featuring industry predictions fromfast casualleaders around the world. Read part 1 here. An increased focus on delivery, the elevation of vegetarian and vegan concepts, embracing automation and finding ways to operate in smaller areas are just a few
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“In order for U.S. manufacturers to compete in a global economy, we need a fully functional Ex-Im Bank,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said. “Without it, U.S. companies are at a major disadvantage against their foreign counterparts. But Rep. Garrett's long record
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National Mortgage Professional Magazine has become “The Source for Top Originators” that connects the mortgage professional community under various media formats. It's committed to ensuring that today's industry is equipped with the most comprehensive understanding of mortgage news available.
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The Wells Fargo NAHB housing market index displays how home owners see the housing market and can be used to predict coincident indicators like housing prices, existing home sales etc. The graph below shows two leading indicators. The grey line displays building permits who are also leading.
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Even with all of the due diligence a title company does before closing, there are rare instances when title problems can pop up later (e.g., missed liens and other legal issues that can be very costly to resolve). To protect against any financial loss, two types of title insurance exist: owner's title insurance
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The idea that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will switch to alternative methods of assessing borrowers' credit scores took a major step forward on Wednesday, MarketWatch staffer Andrea Riquier reports. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie and Freddie's regulator, put out a request for input
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Under the leadership of Jonathan Gray, real estate has become the biggest business unit of Blackstone. … Our business involves finding opportunities in those trends, bringing to bear our 26 years of experience investing and creating value as owners so that we can deliver great returns to our investors.
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Vancouver area – On the front burner… and affordability passes the boiling point. After a brief respite, Vancouver housing prices are on the rise yet again. RBC's aggregate measure surged by 5.3 percentage points to 87.5 per cent in the third quarter. – a new record high for any market in Canada.
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For years, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency had intended to pull hundreds of examiners out of the biggest banks and relocate them to government offices — part of an effort to prevent regulators from getting too cozy with companies they oversee. But in one of his first moves since taking over
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Gates bought a majority stake in the Arizona land from Belmont Partners, a group of Arizona real estate developers. Grady Gammage Jr., founding partner of Phoenix law firm Gammage & Burnham PLC, who represents Belmont Partners, calls the development area a potential blank slate for a new
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Boeing Co has held takeover talks with Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Boeing and Embraer have been discussing a deal that would involve a relatively large premium to the Brazilian company's market capitalization
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SOCO International logo SOCO International plc (LON:SIA) insider Jann M. Brown bought 8,070 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, December 21st. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 107 ($1.44) per share, with a total value of £8,634.90 ($11,621.67). Shares of SOCO
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Today's action resolves the review of Class X from Freddie Mac Securities REMIC Trust 2005-S001 (Freddie Mac 2005-S001) and Class A-8IO from New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 1997-NC6 (New Century 1997-NC6), which bonds were among those placed on review for a reassessment of the IO
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If you're using Amazon Music Storage to keep your digital music stored in the cloud for playing on a variety of devices, you'll need to move on to something else. Amazon has quietly announced that it has removed the ability for free subscription planholders to upload digital music files to its Amazon
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Sesame Street's Ernie, Elmo and Bert at a ceremony on the anniversary of muppet creator Jim Henson's birthday at the National Museum of American History in 2013. Paul Morigi — WireImage/Getty Images. By Chris Morris. 11:07 AM EST. Big Bird better learn to say Snuffleupagus in Arabic.
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The next stories lined up on our countdown of the year's top stories both brought news that shocked the housing industry. … As we continue to countdown to the year's most popular article, we will examine the 3rd and 4th most read stories of 2017, and the shock they brought to the housing market.
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Both names shot higher initially on the news, but have pared most of those gains, with Fannie now up 1.2% and Freddie 0.4%. Rather than a larger plan to free the two from the sweep, the move might instead be seen as a way to prevent accounting swings (i.e. the cut in the corporate tax rate reducing
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WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage finance giants rescued during the financial crisis, reached a deal with the Treasury Department on Thursday allowing them to keep some of their profits as they brace for losses that will be activated by the tax bill soon
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Edward B. Brown and Elaine C. Brown to HBS Real Estate, LLC, 115 Seymore Ave., $146,900. Charles A. Farrell and Constance B. Farrell to Steven E. Wilson and Robin R. Wilson, 2028 Mary Ellen Lane, $155,000. Reed McCormick to Michelle R. Thompson, 3902 N. Atherton St., $120,000. Christine
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Vectra Bank is pleased to introduce an entirely new suite of Personal Deposit and Savings products!
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FICO scores were in the spotlight with a regulatory agency considering credit scoring alternatives and new data highlighting a decline in FICO scores in all loan categories. On the regulatory front, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a Request for Input (RFI) on whether to expand Fannie
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21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BXMT) (the “Company”) today announced the closing of BXMT 2017-FL1, a $1 billion Collateralized Loan Obligation (“CLO”), which is the largest commercial real estate CLO issued post financial crisis. The CLO transaction finances pari
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Earlier this week, the Bank of England (BoE) softened its position on the treatment of European banks with a presence in the U.K. post-Brexit by proposing that these banks can continue operating in the country without any changes. This decision by the British central bank serves several purposes
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The property at 80 Elm St., that was owned by Webster Bank, was bought late last month by Spinnaker Real Estate Investments headed by Clayton Fowler, who is looking to build either a small hotel there or apartments. In addition to the apartments at Landino's College Square, which opened in 2015,
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Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, though he will remain on the board, the company announced Thursday. Leaving the post after 17 years, Schmidt will remain with the company as a technical advisor in science and technology issues. Schmidt
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TPG Specialty Lending (NYSE: TSLX) and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (NYSE:TPVG) are both small-cap financials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst
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Lending Tree, an online lead-generation exchange for consumer loans, is hoping to prove that more informed creative can be one of the main drivers of real-time advertising performance. The company spent two years evaluating dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technologies and is now scaling out
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Obamacare enrollment through federal websites reached 8.8 million this year, the Trump administration said on Thursday, just shy of the number who signed up in 2016 when the enrollment period was twice as long. This year's strong enrollment came despite a GOP-led effort to repeal or gut the
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Salt Lending – Blockchain-backed loans. Hold your assets, get your cash.. Discover 8 alternatives like LendingCrowd and Netcapital.
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Upper Merion Area School District, 163 A.3d 962 (2017), the Upper Merion Area School District, entered into a contract with Keystone Realty, where Keystone was to identify under-assessed commercial properties within the district, and then decide which real estate tax assessments the district would
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Ahead of the conference, Andreas Löcher, head of hotel investments at Union Investment Real Estate, answered our questions on the state of the … This trend is currently being fueled by the fact that office and retail properties are commanding extremely low yields, combined with relatively short supply.
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TheStreet upgraded shares of Digi International from a c+ rating to a b rating in a report on Friday, October 27th. Canaccord Genuity reiterated a buy rating on shares of Digi International in a report on Friday, October 27th. Zacks Investment Research cut shares of Digi International from a hold rating to a
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Shares of Itron Inc (ITRI) are moving on volatility today -0.51% or $-0.35 from the open. The NASDAQ listed company saw a recent bid of $68.70 and 107349 shares have traded hands in the session. Investors may be trying to gauge the current business cycle phase and how that could potentially impact
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The FHFA announced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to maintain, in a safe manner, credit availability and foreclosure prevention activities for new … The FHFA instructed Fannie and Freddie to, if appropriate, prepare to implement a new credit scoring model, a process years in the making.
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Glaser tells Fortune, he lives by this motto: “there is no innovation without dissent”. Every one of Marsh & McLennan's 60,000 employees has heard Glaser talk about this many times. “I'm happy with conflict. I want cognitive conflict”, he explains, adding that he does not want an environment where people
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Calamos Wealth Management LLC raised its stake in MGM Resorts International by 0.5% during the second quarter. Calamos Wealth Management LLC now owns 52,540 shares of the company's stock worth $1,644,000 after buying an additional 257 shares during the last quarter. Nordea Investment
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SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today released the October 2017 First American Real House Price Index (RHPI). The RHPI measures
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At March's International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), Martin J. Brühl, CIO and member of the management board at Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate, will participate in a panel entitled “Investors' Intentions in 2018 and Beyond” that examines where investors are planning to spend their
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The Los Angeles-based money manager, headed by Jeffrey Gundlach, is starting an investment adviser called Mortgage Opportunities Capital, according to regulatory filings. It will be an integral part of DoubleLine's plan to raise capital from institutional investors to originate or buy commercial and
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A report released on Thursday from mortgage industry consultant STRATMOR Group debunks the myth that loan officers (LO) are too old to meet the needs of the younger borrowers—millennials in particular—who looking to buy a home. In the report, STRATMOR Senior Partner Jim Cameron draws
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The government's efforts at recapitalising banks and its introduction of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) last year is expected to aid a faster clean-up of bank balance sheets, the RBI said in a report. The combination of linking bank performance to the quantum of funds injected through
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Financial terms of the deal were not released. The deal closed Wednesday, said Bowman, who opened her real estate office in 2009 and has eight agents working for her. The transaction gives New England Properties a total of 55 offices and more than 1,800 agents operating in four states. Bowman
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At some point in the new year, the field of investment banks focused on the government contracting space will get a bit more crowded here with the emergence of Robert W. Baird & Co. Local investment bankers and gov-con executives I've talked to this week say the move by Milwaukee-based Baird
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The official stressed that this is the result when real estate developers and sellers work together. He mentioned that according to a study conducted by Realty World, with data from the National Housing Commission (Conavi), from January to August of this year, Campeche led housing sales along with
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… to find volunteers to serve their community. Board-certified real estate lawyer Gary M. Singer writes about industry legal matters and the housing market at SunSentinel.com/business/realestate each week. To ask him a question, email him at gary@garysingerlaw.com, or go to SunSentinel.com/askpro.
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School banking is gradually getting a huge response among students across the country as deposits with the banking accounts crossed Tk 1,200 crore at the end of September 2017. The central bank's latest quarterly report on financial inclusion shows that a total of Tk 1,254.23 crore was deposited with
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Many young people pursue a career in investment banking thinking they'll be able to change the world for the better but end up getting disillusioned when it becomes clear that making money is the only real purpose of their work. That said, there are firms out there that attempt to combine profitability with
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So after nearly 12 months of dwelling value growth to November 2017, national dwelling values have started levelling off as the year comes to a close, CoreLogic research found. The sharpest transition occurred in Sydney, which had previously been the strongest housing market in recent years. By the
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Another tip from Terrazas: Look to buy a home sooner rather than later. “Even with the housing market as it is right now, financially it does make sense to buy as soon as you can,” he said. Along with other potential benefits, you'd be building “equity at a time when interest rates are very low.”.
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The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updated its housing market forecast for sales activity in 2017 and 2018. Housing market trends continue to differ considerably among regions along four general themes: British Columbia, the Greater Golden Horseshoe, provinces that are dependent
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Stress in the Indian banking sector remains high but it may be close to bottoming out, said the Reserve Bank of India's Financial Stability Report released on Thursday. Still, bad loans may rise a little further with gross non-performing assets expected to hit 11.1 percent of all loans by September 2018, the
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The number of home loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are 60 days or more past due or are in the foreclosure process ticked up in the third quarter of 2017, due in large part to the effects of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, according to the Federal
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Law360, New York (December 21, 2017, 4:15 PM EST) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday said it intends to “reconsider” a 2015 rule expanding disclosures that banks and other mortgage lenders have to make, and ease lenders into complying with the rule when it takes effect in
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“In just five years of business, we've become the second-largest title company in Illinois and attracted some of the best and brightest professionals in the industry,” said David Garside, Executive Vice President of Title and Escrow Operations at Proper Title. “These four new hires further confirm that our
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will provide many people with higher after-tax incomes, which is expected to put upward pressure on home prices and mortgage rates. It caps the mortgage interest rate deduction at $750,000 and increases the standard deduction, which will eliminate the tax benefits of
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“There's still a belief system in the continuing depth and growth of the downtown housing market,” he said, “so it seems like a logical choice.” After a decade of watching the John Hartness Brown complex languish, along with the shuttered Cleveland Athletic Club Building across the street, Yablonsky has
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Under the BofEs proposals, European banks operating in London, the world's largest financial centre, would face little change after Brexit providing the banking supervisors in the European Union cooperate with their U.K. counterparts. They would not, as had been feared, have to ring fence their capital
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Not up, not down and no clear road signs for the future. As the calendar year draws to a close, that's the main story of the Martha's Vineyard real estate market in 2017. With three weeks left in the year, Martha's Vineyard Land Bank revenues totaled $12.4 million, a six per cent drop from last year, when
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The homebuilding sector has been in great shape this year. Builders' confidence is hovering around the highest level in more than 18 years this month. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index increased 5 points in December to 74, marking the third successive rise , as per analysts from Wells
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 41,465 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter, according to data released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). During the third quarter, the number of early stage delinquent loans—covering the first 30 to 59 days of delinquency—rose by
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David Dickey, who has more than 25 years of experience in the mortgage lending space, has joined Guaranteed Rate Affinity as Executive Vice President, National Director. David is based out of Texas and will be responsible for the production, profitability and overall performance of all Guaranteed Rate
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Another crazy year for the Denver real estate market is in the books. As of early December, when the Denver Metro Association of REALTORS released its December “Denver Metro Real Estate Market Trends Report,” 2017 was on pace to break last year's record for the number of homes sold in metro
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The FHFA announced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to maintain, in a safe manner, credit availability and foreclosure prevention activities for new and refinance mortgages in order to foster liquid, efficient, competitive and resilient national housing finance markets. “FHFA expects the
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The real estate industry has taken major advantage of our digital age, too. So many websites feature 360 degree videos and high-res photographs, showcasing the best in real estate from the comfort of someone's laptop and transforming agencies and companies into fantastic examples of evolving
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They write that banks should see more upside thanks to an improving earnings outlook over the next two years, due to tax reform, and they also see stronger loan growth ahead. They write that the economic outlook is brightening–expect two interest rate hikes in 2018, up from one that they previously
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LONDON (Reuters) – British app-based bank Monzo and others like it want to make money by allowing other firms access to their customers rather than lending to them, but this is an untested path to profitability. Monzo's user numbers soared by 300 percent to 450,000 in nine months this year, which has
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COM) – The New York Post is reporting, former Dallas Cowboys running back Darren McFadden might have lost out on a multi-million dollar Bitcoin fortune as a result of a fraudulent investment at the hands of his one-time business manager. McFadden, 30, announced his retirement two days after his
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Loop Capital's price objective would indicate a potential upside of 11.85% from the company's previous close. A number of other brokerages also recently weighed in on MANT. Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and set a $54.00 target price on shares of Mantech International in a research note on Thursday
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The Winklevoss twins, who became bitcoin's first billionaires, have devised a novel solution to store their crypto fortune. (See more: Winklevoss Twins Are Bitcoin's First Billionaires.) In a recent New York Times interview, they detailed how their approach to secure private keys, which control access to
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the “agencies”) have developed new uniform instruments for use with Texas home equity loans beginning January 1, 2018. Those forms will reportedly be available on the agencies' web sites as that date approaches. In addition, the agencies are imposing a temporary
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Though job growth is slowing in the Bay Area, giving rise to worries about a downturn in home values, experts are predicting a slowdown at worst for the real estate market — and no changes at best. Bay Area job growth was around 4% in 2015 and 3% in 2016, while in 2017 “it's moving closer to 1%,”
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There were 3,473 new homes sold in November, according to Altus Group*, BILD's official source for new-home market intelligence. About 91 per cent of these (3,161 units) were condominium apartments in low, medium and high-rise buildings, stacked townhouses and loft units. While condo apartment
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Fish swim around the helm of the Australian submarine HMAS AE1 off the coast of the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain. One of Australia's oldest naval mysteries has been solved after the discovery of the wreck of the country's first submarine more than 103 years after its disappearance in World
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Mortgage rates edged just slightly higher again today, capping the sharpest 3-day increase since late June and leaving the average lender more than an eighth of a percentage point higher than they were on Monday. While an eighth of a point may have been a fairly typical “big week” in previous years,
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The stock of POLYMETAL INTERNATIO (OTCMKTS:POYYF) registered a decrease of 74.29% in short interest. POYYF's total short interest was 41,500 shares in December as published by FINRA. Its down 74.29% from 161,400 shares, reported previously. With 100 shares average volume, it will take
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While mortgage REITs won't see a whole lot of benefit from the cut in the corporate rate, their generally high-income investors will get more favorable tax treatment on the dividends they receive (assuming their holdings aren't already in Roth-type accounts), says KBW's Bose George. Maxim's Michael
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MCLEAN, VA — (Marketwired) — 12/21/17 — Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today that it issued its Monthly Volume Summary for Nov. 2017, which provides information on Freddie Mac's mortgage-related portfolios, securities issuance, risk management, delinquencies, debt activities and other
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The moves come about five months after BMO appointed Dan Barclay and Peter Myers as co-heads of global investment and corporate banking. The three executives – John Armstrong, Ashi Mathur and Michael Neuberger – will report to Barclay and Myers. Since the financial crisis, BMO has invested
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From a Sunday high of nearly $20,000 per digital coin, Bitcoin dropped more than 22% to a price as low as $15,262 on Thursday afternoon. Some see the drop as fallout from long-unresolved problems with Bitcoin's infrastructure, and the increasingly intense civil war it has produced in the
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Scientists have a message for dog owners: Keep the chocolate away from that pooch this holiday season. Sweet treats containing chocolate, understandably, are all over the place during Christmas and other holiday festivities. But that's also why dog poisonings by chocolate hit their highest mark on
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ICICI Bank logo Capital International Investors grew its stake in ICICI Bank Ltd (NYSE:IBN) by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 12,890,970 shares of the bank's stock after buying an
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued the metrics on which it will assess the 2018 performance of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their jointly owned securitization platform, which will be implemented for the “Single Security” to be issued by both GSEs in the second quarter of 2019.
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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF) is an interesting player in the Financial space, with a focus on Surety & Title Insurance. The stock has been active on the tape, currently trading at $39.12, down from yesterday's close by -0.15%. Given the stock's recent action, it seemed like a good time to take a
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American businessman and investor Peter Schiff believes investors buying Bitcoin at current prices could lose everything. It's been an interesting, and for some frightening, past few days for Bitcoin. Last week, the price of the cryptocurrency reacted favorably to the launch of Bitcoin futures on the CBOE.
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MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Reserve Bank of India has warned against further downside risk for the banking sector as asset quality concerns are far from over while it said the deleveraging in the heavily indebted parts of the corporate sector and slow credit growth may delay country's economic revival.
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LendingQB and Hippo have partnered to integrate Hippo's Home Insurance solution mortgage app into LendingQB's Loan Origination Software (LOS). The integration provides lenders with a cloud-based user interface that enables borrowers to get compliant home insurance for customers at a better
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According to Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, Shumake operated the business in 2009 and 2010, illegally collecting upfront fees to audit clients' mortgages and stated an attorney would renegotiate debt as needed. Understaffing and inexperienced employees resulted in clients being left in
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As the real estate market continues to evolve, new trends are emerging for 2018. Real estate agents have the challenging task of changing with the market and being responsive to their clients' needs. Whether it is a buyer looking to purchase a new house or a seller looking to get the best price for their
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WASHINGTON — The announcement Thursday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt had agreed to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each build a $3 billion capital buffer in many ways avoided a potential crisis. Without this deal, Fannie and
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Syndicated financial columnist Terry Savage helped her dad get a reverse mortgage when he was in his early 80s and he was able to live in his own home until he passed away at 95. She recently shared his story in her column and in this video to explain why she supports the concept of a reverse
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The integration will enable Loan Officers using Floify to streamline their mortgage process and automatically collect a borrower's credit report from Credit Plus upon submission of a loan application or on-demand directly from their Floify account. Credit Plus' integration with Floify also eliminates the
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But Redfin, a tech-focused real estate startup, is challenging the status quo by expanding its one percent listing fee program into the Hudson Valley housing market, including Westchester and Rockland counties. In a traditional setting, sellers are typically responsible for a six percent commission on the
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The U.S. Treasury Department has agreed to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to retain small capital buffers, reversing a plan to wind down the … That credit line collectively totals $258.1 billion, of which $117.6 billion is available to Fannie and $140.5 billion is available to Freddie. Once drawn
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The moves come about five months after BMO appointed Dan Barclay and Peter Myers as co-heads of global investment and corporate banking. The three executives – John Armstrong, Ashi Mathur and Michael Neuberger – will report to Barclay and Myers. Since the financial crisis, BMO has invested
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While London and Manchester used to be the hot favourites among investors, the city of Birmingham is rapidly emerging as the next property hotspot to look at in the UK. According to The Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2017 report, Birmingham was named the UK's top location for property investment,
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Summary. On January 1, 2018, amendments to the rule that implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Regulation C, issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2015, take effect. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is issuing this bulletin to inform
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“The bill will have a significant impact on the housing market and overall economy, so it makes sense that people are wondering what it means to them,” Senior Economist Joseph Kirchner of realtor.com said in a statement. Republican lawmakers say the $1.5 trillion tax-code rewrite will put more money
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will each be allowed to maintain a capital buffer of $3 billion under a new agreement between the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today. The GSEs' current capital buffer — put in place under the terms of the Senior Preferred
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I'm concerned that the expected changes in the federal tax laws, particularly pertaining to capping the deductibility of real estate taxes and mortgage/loan interest, as well as the elimination of the deductibility of state and city taxes, will adversely affect the cooperative and condominium sales market.
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One year after the 2016 elections, the U.S. affordable housing market continues to weaken. … Kevin Morris, South Florida member of the Colliers International Affordable Housing division, talked to Multi-Housing News about the affordable housing market during the first year of the Trump administration
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA's) House Price Index (HPI) for September slowed to its lowest level since January, 6.3 percent and the month-over-month increase of 0.3 percent was also a recent low. The October HPI, released on Thursday, probably erased any thoughts that the rate of
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ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST), an S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and the largest lodging real estate investment trust in the nation, is relocating its current Bethesda corporate headquarters to approximately 55,000 square feet at 4747 Bethesda
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The banking sector has been reeling under $156 billion of stressed loans that is widely seen as delaying the credit growth needed to revive private … Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has also called on the government to undertake reforms at the state-run lenders, saying doing so was
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Irwin Preet Singh Anand, COO, OLX India, said, “The report helps us in recognizing emerging consumer trends in the real estate market. Delhi-NCR is one of the fastest growing markets on our real estate section, with one third of the buyers seeking ready to move inventory, particularly in the NCR
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Private sector banks registered a 40.8% year-on-year increase in gross non-performing assets as of September 30, 2017, according to latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In comparison, gross NPAs at public sector banks (PSBs) rose by 17% over the corresponding period, while
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Hugh Hefner went to great lengths to make sure all the beneficiaries in his trust kept on the straight and narrow, and not dependent on any drugs or alcohol. Mike and Jeff give the rundown on the Playboy founder's recently filed trust, Mindy Kaling's daughter's birth certificate, and Eva Longoria was doing
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to maintain a limited capital buffer to protect against possible losses according to a new deal announced Thursday by the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The mortgage giants, which were taken over by the
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The amount of construction going on in the City makes the British capital look like a boomtown. Yet, following the UK's vote to leave the European Union, the market has been distinctly downbeat on the value of London office space and the share prices of real estate investment trusts (REITs) have
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We're well into the season of reunions and get-togethers, sometimes merry, sometimes forced. It can be dicey. Unspoken worries can surface beneath the small talk; turmoil at work, the health of older relatives, the prospects for children, grown yet stalled. For some, it's a cruel benchmark. This time of
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3 Rockstar INXS/INXS; 1. SEVEN IN 7 ENQUIRIES Red Rebel Music enquiries@redrebelmusic. D. Worldwide at your service. Fortune learned he'd replace the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence in a moment of TV drama, as guitarist Tim Farris announced “you are right for our band” on CBS.
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The Mortgage Bankers Association Opens Doors Foundation (MBA Opens Doors) has announced it raised a record $1.8 million in calendar year 2017, furthering its mission to help families meet their housing costs while dealing with a critically ill or injured child receiving medical treatment. Currently in
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The Louisville home-building industry might not return to pre-recession levels anytime soon, but there are clear signs of encouragement heading into 2018. Suppliers and builders are busy, and the Building Industry Association of Greater Louisville projects that 1,200 to 1,500 homes will be built in
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While an IMF-World Bank report gave a thumbs-up to the government's moves to clean up the banking sector and address bad loans, it also said more steps were needed to be taken, including further strengthening the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) de jure independence and its powers over State-run
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Navistar International logo Navistar International (NYSE:NAV) was upgraded by Stifel Nicolaus from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, December 12th, MarketBeat reports. The firm presently has a $50.00 target price on the stock, up from their
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There was mildly good news in Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) for week ending Dec. 21. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.94 percent this week, up from last week when it averaged 3.93 percent. The 15-year FRM this week averaged 3.38 percent, up from
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Real estate no longer looks like an alternative asset class, Peter Senst, president of Canadian capital markets for CBRE, said in a phone interview. “When you look at relative returns, it stacks up very well against equities, infrastructure, bonds, so it's becoming more of an acceptable strategy to pursue,”
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Global commercial real real estate company JLL has signed an operating agreement with CityBldr, a Seattle company that uses big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to find the highest and best use of every property in a market. The timing of the deal is auspicious for CityBldr, which works
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Yomtov Scott Menaged, one of the stars of the Discovery Channel reality show “Property Wars,” has been sentenced to 17 years of prison for federal bank fraud, money laundering, and identity theft. He has also been ordered to pay $33.6 million in restitution to victims of his multi-year real estate
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707 Miller Real Estate II Ltd. to Joseph L. Edghill, 894 Green Drive, Coshocton, $112,000. 708 William and Myrna Hostetler to Perry and Tracey Beavers, Acct Nos: 002-473-01, 002-517-00, Adams Township, $164,135.16. 709 Michael Mark and Jenifer Kaye Ungurean to Michael D. and Amy D. Finton,
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the Department of the Treasury have agreed to reinstate a $3 billion capital reserve amount under the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). As a result of this decision, Fannie Mae and Freddie
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The Company is organized as an insurance holding company whose subsidiaries actively market, underwrite, and provide risk management services for a wide variety of coverages mostly in the general and title insurance fields. A long-term interest in mortgage guaranty and consumer credit indemnity
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