Time to Push the Loan Limits? – Wall Street Journal
During some weeks in 2014, average rates for both 30-year, fixed-rate loans and adjustable-rate jumbo mortgages dipped lower than conforming-loan rates. Even when average rates are higher, some lenders are competitive with their jumbo products when …
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Exclusive: ECB pressures German bank HSH to cut bad loans in half – sources
HSH and its majority owners, the German states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, have already said they hope to spin off problem loans into a separate entity, leaving HSH with a clean balance sheet. But the ECB focus on its balance sheet adds to …
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How O'Malley Would Let Private Lenders Back Into Federal Student Loans
President Obama won a major victory by kicking banks out of the federal student loan program in 2010. It was no-brainer good policy. Now Governor Martin O'Malley is proposing to let the same banks into the program through the back door. And expensive …
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