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  • Water, sewer costs to rise in Berkeley County

    Charleston Post & Courier - The county has yet to calculate just how much bills will go up. Documents obtained by The Post and Courier show that in 2005 ... the insurance, XL Capital Assurance, recently was stripped of its high bond rating as a result of the sub-prime mortgage ...
    2008-02-07 09:32:00
  • Credit Scores: Not So Magic Numbers

    BusinessWeek - ... credit score— developed by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac to help banks and department stores calculate ... But with mortgage defaults surging and credit-card issuers bracing for more problems, the wizard seems to have lost some of ...
    2008-02-06 03:57:00
  • Monolines rescue efforts might be in vain

    Financial Times - ... issue could give MBIA enough funds to withstand further potential losses related to guarantees it has given on mortgage ... and encouraged by regulators such as the US Federal Reserve – banks such as Merrill Lynch are trying to calculate whether ...
    2008-02-07 01:04:00
  • HAKU MO‘OLELO

    Maui News - A buyer can calculate rental charges — which will be based on factors of location and rental market need — weigh it against costs for mortgage payments, taxes and insurance, and gauge “fundamental value.” The Smiths suggested that pricing ...
    2008-02-08 02:04:00
  • Battlers punished on water

    News.com.au - ... for water connections that are then passed on in the cost of the new home, pushing up prices in Sydney's struggling mortgage ... The formula used to calculate the developer charges - which range from nothing to around $10,000 depending on existing ...
    2008-02-08 05:03:00
  • Calculate numbers before refinancing - Nashua Telegraph

    Calculate numbers before refinancingNashua Telegraph, NH - 12 hours agoMortgage rates fell this week, keeping a refinancing boomlet alive. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 10 basis points, to 5.78 percent, ...
    2008-02-07 09:14:26
  • Credit Scores: Not-So-Magic Numbers - BusinessWeek

    Credit Scores: Not-So-Magic NumbersBusinessWeek - 11 hours agos credit score— developed by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac to help banks and department stores calculate their customers' ...
    2008-02-07 10:45:41
  • Put underutilized rooms in your home to good use - StarNewsOnline.com

    Put underutilized rooms in your home to good useStarNewsOnline.com, NC - 9 hours agoBy Sharon Harvey Rosenberg, There's a simple mathematical formula that will help you calculate the hidden value in your home. Divide your mortgage or annual ...
    2008-02-08 12:44:44
  • Higher FHA loan limits could boost region - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

    Higher FHA loan limits could boost regionSarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 8 hours agoAs the mortgage industry started finding a ready resale market for mortgage securities based on subprime and no-money-down loans during the recent real ...
    2008-02-08 01:40:02
  • World's kids are not born to hate - Daily Telegraph

    World's kids are not born to hateDaily Telegraph, Australia - 3 hours agoThis child - eight or nine years of age - is being programmed to kill, to calculate the worth of human life, including his own, at precisely zero. ...
    2008-02-08 06:06:24
  • Battlers punished on water - Daily Telegraph

    Battlers punished on waterDaily Telegraph, Australia - 3 hours agoThe formula used to calculate the developer charges - which range from nothing to around $10000 depending on existing infrastructure - is under fire from ...
    2008-02-08 06:12:33
  • Event Brief of Q4 2007 Safeco Corp. Earnings Conference Call - Final - Insurance News Net (press release)

    Event Brief of Q4 2007 Safeco Corp. Earnings Conference Call - FinalInsurance News Net (press release), PA - 1 hour agoWe have a target for financial leverage to keep it in the 25% to 30% range, so you can calculate how much we could issue in either straight debt or even ...
    2008-02-08 08:16:49
  • CHUCK JAFFE: Calculate Your Own Personal Inflation Index With This Formula (Nasdaq)

    BOSTON (Dow Jones) -- At a financial seminar in Framingham, Mass., last fall, a woman named Geri stood up with a great question. She wondered why the nation's inflation rate did not seem to apply to her.
    2008-02-07 10:08:28
  • Put underutilized rooms in your home to good use (The Wilmington Star-News)

    There's a simple mathematical formula that will help you calculate the hidden value in your home. Divide your mortgage or annual lease by the total square footage in your home and use that value to calculate the cost of your living room, dining room or other underutilized rooms.
    2008-02-08 12:31:24
  • Post Politics Hour (Washington Post)

    Washington Post congressional reporter Jonathan Weisman discusses the latest buzz on the campaing trail and The Post's coverage of political news.
    2008-02-08 09:29:23