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5 Credit Score Myths that Could Hurt You
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You know that when you apply for a mortgage, your credit score is pulled. You know that you will only get the best mortgage rates if you have a good credit score. And you know that it is a good idea to work on improving your credit score if you want [...]

Major Credit Cards Trying for ?Consumer Friendly?
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With the deadline looming for Credit CARD Act reforms, and with President Barack Obama pushing for more bank regulation, it is little surprise that major card issuers are trying to market themselves as “consumer friendly.” But have credit card issuing banks really turned over a new leaf? Probably not. The whole point is [...]

Paying Your Mortgage with a Credit Card? Yikes!
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This is a guest post by Joel Ohman
If you want to pay your mortgage with a credit card then there is both a right way to do this and a very wrong way. Let’s take a look at some of the important factors that come into play before you just [...]

FHA Loan Help BEFORE You Fall Behind on Your Mortgage
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One of the most backward things about some of the foreclosure prevention programs floating around is the fact that you can’t usually get help until after you have missed payments. This is discouraging, since it means that you have to destroy your credit by missing three payments before mortgage lenders [...]

President Obama Gears Up for More Bank Regulation
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In the wake of the financial crisis and a bailout of banks “too big to fail”, President Barack Obama is getting ready to propose some new limits to bank size and the kinds of risks they take. If such proposals take effect, it will change the way banking is done [...]

Morgan Stanley Sees Second Straight Quarterly Profit
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Unlike Citigroup, which reported a large loss yesterday, Morgan Stanley is posting a profit. Indeed, Morgan Stanley’s profit is the second straight quarterly profit, and huge improvement over the $11 billion loss from this time a year ago. CNN Money reports on Morgan Stanley’s profit:
“In a year of transition for our firm and [...]

Citigroup Loses $7.6 Billion
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JP Morgan ended up with a profit in the billions for Quarter 4 if 2009. Citigroup, on the other hand, lost billions. The company, which is 27% owned by the U.S. Treasury Department, reported a $7.6 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2009, due in large part to the fact that the [...]

4 Things That Can Help You Sell Your House Faster
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Despite the improvements that have been made in the housing market lately, it is still very much a buyer’s market. And that means that if you want to sell your home, you are going to have to cater to the buyers. They can afford to be picky, so you need to set your [...]

J.P. Morgan Chase Reports $3.3 Billion in Profits
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This past year has been good to the financial companies that were on the verge of disaster at the end of 2008. Thanks to TARP (which many banks are thankfully paying back), financial companies have been able to become profitable again. And, even though taxpayers have been helping these companies [...]

Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop
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Mortgage interest rates continue to hover near historical lows. And this week, fixed mortgage rates, which have been inching higher, are dropping again. Indeed, with Treasury indexed mortgages dropping their rates, it is little surprise that other mortgage rates are following suit. Freddie Mac reports that the fixed rate mortgage is [...]

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