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July foreclosures up 93 percent vs year ago: survey

Home foreclosures rose 9 percent in July from June and soared 93 percent from a year ago as states that once enjoyed a white-hot housing market are now seeing the greatest number of loan failures, a real estate survey reported on Tuesday.

Countrywide says it cut 500 mortgage jobs

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Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said it had eliminated about 500 jobs nationwide as it tries to cope with a credit shortfall stemming from the U.S. housing downturn.
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Capital One slashes jobs, mortgage industry swoons

The U.S. mortgage industry took another battering on Monday, as Capital One Financial Corp said it will shut a lending unit it bought less than a year ago, while two mortgage companies took steps to bolster liquidity as losses piled up.
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Toys R Us stops sales of China-made bibs

Retailer Toys R Us on Friday said it removed all Hamco Inc.'s vinyl baby bibs, which were made in China, from its shelves as a precaution after an independent tester found two samples of bibs containing excessive amounts of lead.
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Niche e-tailers attract bargain hunters

Think of a retail boutique with a very, very limited range of products and bargain basement prices. Now, put that on the Internet and you have the next big thing in online shopping.
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Mortgage angst hits commodities

Prices of metals, energy and grains tumbled on Thursday as commodities were caught up in a global rush out of risky investments for the safety of cash.
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Countrywide cut by Merrill and bankruptcy raised

Countrywide Financial Corp shares fell as much as 9.2 percent on Wednesday after the largest U.S. mortgage lender was downgraded to sell from buy by a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst, who said bankruptcy may be possible if liquidity worsens.
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More trouble ahead for Wall Street?

It will be a weekend of high anxiety for investors on Wall Street, as they brace themselves for what will likely be another rollercoaster ride for the battered financial markets.
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Wall St's silver-hair set takes sell-off in stride

The last time the U.S. markets experienced such wild swings as they have in the past week, Wall Street warriors in their 20s and 30s were trading baseball cards and lunchbox snacks, not stocks and bonds.
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Retail investors take gyrations in stride

Wall Street's roller-coaster ride, triggered by the meltdown in subprime mortgage lending, is spreading pain through financial markets -- but has not hit Main Street yet.
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Hasbro, Electronic Arts reach digital games pact

Electronic Arts Inc. and Hasbro, Inc. on Friday said they have made a licensing agreement to create electronic versions of some of Hasbro's most popular games including Monopoly, Scrabble and Yahtzee.
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VMware Raises IPO target to $1.1 billion

EMC Corp.'s Vmware raised the target price of its initial public offering to as much as $1.1 billion, making it one of the largest technology IPOs since Google in 2004.
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Adviser to Broadcom ex-CEO faces charges

An adviser to Broadcom Corp. ex-Chief Executive Henry Nicholas, on Thursday appeared in federal court in California, where he faces charges that he failed to report currency withdrawals from an Orange County bank.
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Should lenders be more forgiving?

Homeowners who fall behind on mortgage payments say lenders have grown slightly more flexible in scheduling late payments but are less accommodating than they ought to be, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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Countrywide says had $187 bln liquidity at June 30

Countrywide Financial Corp said on Monday it had access to $186.5 billion of cash as of June 30, as the largest U.S. mortgage lender attempts to assure nervous investors it expects to survive a credit crunch that has claimed dozens of smaller rivals.
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Bear Stearns may be attractive for JPM, BofA, HSBC

Banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and HSBC might be interested in buying Bear Stearns Cos at the right price, but there would be real obstacles to a deal happening anytime soon, analysts said.
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Subprime lender shares fall on analyst downgrades

Shares of subprime lenders and companies with a stake in the risky end of the real estate business plunged in midday trading on Monday as analysts downgraded them and negative news continued to worry the market.

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