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Latest News – January 4, 2008

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CNN Money – NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — You’ve thought about it, dreamed about it… now you can do it. Be debt-free in 2008. Here’s how. 1: Get a grip Americans were expected to charge more than $148 billion this holiday season. And that holiday debt is on top …

Deal with holiday ‘debt hangover’
Miami Herald – As the credit card bills start rolling in this month from the recent holiday season, many consumers are going to get that queasy feeling that they’ve overindulged. There are antidotes for “debt hangover,” experts say, but they require putting payment …

Tackle Your Holiday Debt
ABC News – During the holidays, many people rush to their mailboxes, searching for cards and gifts. Now the credit card statements, which fueled the holiday spending, are preparing to arrive and the enthusiasm has faded into worries. A survey around …

State Street braced for debt market lawsuits
Times Online – In August, State Street admitted it had a $22 billion exposure to asset backed commercial paper conduits – packages of short term loans backed by credit card or sub-prime home loan debt – giving the bank the largest exposure at that time of any US or …

Asset-Backed Paper Grows for First Time Since August (Update5)
Bloomberg – … the first time since the August freeze in the credit markets, companies issued more IOUs backed by collateral as the cost to borrow in the short-term debt fell to the lowest in 22 months. Commercial paper backed by mortgages, credit-card …

Dealing with 2007 debt
News.com.au – Read fine print before getting a new card or loan Calculator: Compare credit cards More credit card news in our Money section WHAT with rising petrol prices, interest rate hikes and a stagnant real estate market, some are pleased to put last year …

2008 so far: disappointing
Globe and Mail – Credit-card debt is at its highest levels. And the dollar has just seen another massive 1 per cent of its value painfully sheared, crushing the hopes, dreams and superiority complexes of millions of Canadians. If these trends continue, as economists …

The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed
Baltimore Sun – … predicts loan officers and brokers will make far greater use of so-called “rapid rescoring” services offered by some local credit bureaus to increase applicants’ scores legally by correcting errors, lowering debt utilization ratios on credit card …

Man using GPS drives into path of train, jumps out just before fiery …
Minneapolis Star Tribune – BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. – A computer consultant apparently put too much faith in the GPS technology in his … Jude lead may punch hole in heart, journal says Race to HDTV creeps along Hutchinson family gives credit card debt the heave-ho MSP …

Budget or splurge?
Chicago Tribune – Is your wallet more blue than flush with green these days? It seems many of us don’t feel so affluent anymore. Whether it’s from credit card debt, an escalating mortgage, or a long-overdue raise, finding finances are tight. And one of the first …

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