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Latest News in Credit Card Debt - Oct 22, 2007

Crunch time for sales: Does the end of the debt bubble mean a sharp …
The Independent - Over the past 18 months, levels of unsecured personal loans and credit-card debt have slowly started to moderate – and while personal insolvencies have increased, they still remain at relatively low levels historically. Meanwhile, the wider economy …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:26:00 GMT

Dungeons of Debt
American Reporter - BRADENTON, Fla. — ExxonMobil is one of those companies that don’t like to be contacted by telephone. They list no phones on their Websites for consumer credit-card holders, and their individual “On The Run” stores aren’t always listed in the local …
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:08:00 GMT

Web users put bottom lines online
News.com.au - The house, together with a car worth $40,000 and retirement savings of just over $173,000, minus the mortgage and credit card debt of just over $7000, gives Striving2BDebtFree a net worth of $446,886, a 0.38 per cent improvement on the previous month …
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:37:00 GMT

American Express 3Q profit up 10 percent, beats expectations
San Diego Union-Tribune - Like mortgages, credit card debt is often packaged and sold as securities on global debt markets. Any spillover from the slumping housing market into consumer credit could hurt both AmEx’s business and the overall asset-backed securities market. Red …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:48:00 GMT

Organizing a Big Bank Bailout
US News and World Report - Subprime debt. Over the past several years, financial institutions have used SIVs to purchase packaged bundles of credit instruments, including credit card and mortgage debt, both prime and subprime. The SIVs financed the purchases by issuing …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:43:00 GMT

Yvonne Zanos: Don't allow companies into your bank account
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Q: Funds are tight right now. I got a call from a company that promised to help clear up my credit card debt. It sounded pretty good. They would take money out of my bank account for a few months and then negotiate a lower payoff with my credit card …
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:58:00 GMT

Stocks: The Bleeding Stops
BusinessWeek - He downgraded several mortgage stocks and also downgraded credit card companies, saying he believes the credit losses could spread to other forms of debt. “Only a fraction of [credit losses] have been realized, and each quarter the numbers will …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:40:00 GMT

Company Profile for Mizuho Financial Group Inc symbol lookup
Reuters UK - … trust management, investment corporation asset operation, lease, derivatives, merge and acquisition (M&A), information processing service, credit card, research and investigation, software, venture capital, corporate financial advisory, debt …
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:39:00 GMT

KKR Banks Market Former TXU Debt at 11 Percent Yield (Update3)
Bloomberg - … basis points less than that paid in a bond offering last week by First Data Corp., the biggest processor of credit-card payments. Energy Future is “very risky in the utility space, but it is still a utility,” said Dot Matthews, a debt …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:24:00 GMT

Harry Gross | It's possible we owe a debt of thanks to gov't for …
Philadelphia Daily News - In addition, we have about $30,000 in credit-card debt that we’d like to get rid of. The buyer of the land has offered to create a private annuity trust for us with the $600,000, but we would prefer the cash. What about the capital-gains tax on our …
Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:19:00 GMT

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