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Swisscom to bid $4.9 bln for Italy's Fastweb
Reuters   Monday, 12 March 2007

Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss telecoms firm Swisscom, Carsten Schloter attends a news conference in Zurich, Switzerland, January 20, 2006. Swiss telecoms group Swisscom proposed a 3.7-billion-euro ($4.87 billion) friendly takeover bid for Italian broadband operator Fastweb in a move to fortify revenues, which are stagnant at home. (Sebastian Derungs/Reuters)Reuters - Swiss telecoms group Swisscom has proposed a 3.7 billion euro ($4.9 billion) friendly takeover bid for Italian broadband operator Fastweb in a move to break free from stagnant growth in its home market.


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ALL BUSINESS: Homebuilder talks straight
AP   Sunday, 11 March 2007
AP - In a March 9 story about home sales, The Associated Press erroneously reported a homebuilder's name. It is D.R. Horton Inc., not D.H. Horton Inc. The corrected version appears below.
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Correction: All Business story
AP   Sunday, 11 March 2007
AP - In a March 9 story about home sales, The Associated Press erroneously reported a homebuilder's name. It is D.R. Horton Inc., not D.H. Horton Inc.
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A Whole New Wireless World
Investor's Business Daily   Saturday, 10 March 2007
Investor's Business Daily - A farmer in rural China sends a text message to check on crop prices. A teenager in Japan shops on the Internet. In Germany, a real estate agent downloads property photos to show a client.
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Countrywide Financial ends no down-payment lending
Reuters   Saturday, 10 March 2007
Reuters - Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Friday told its brokers to stop offering borrowers the option of no-money-down home loans, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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Subprime loan hangover
AP   Saturday, 10 March 2007
AP - Investors are waiting to find out how just how bad their hangover will be as thousands of loans made to home buyers with spotty credit histories have begun to look dubious in the sobriety that followed the housing bubble.
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Economy - Thursday
Investor's Business Daily   Friday, 09 March 2007
Investor's Business Daily - Average 30-year rates fell to 6.14% from 6.18% in the prior week. The 15-year rate averaged 5.86% vs. 5.92%, while 1-year ARMs fell to 5.47% from 5.49%. Rates are at their lowest levels so far this year, Freddie Mac said, citing worries over last week's sell-off in stocks and concerns over the slowing U.S. economy.
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Business Briefs - Monday
Investor's Business Daily   Tuesday, 06 March 2007
Investor's Business Daily - Europe's largest bank by market value said its profit rose 5% in '06 to $15.8 bil, while operating income jumped 14% to $70 mil, despite losses in its mortgage operation. HSBC projected it'll take 2-3 years to emerge from problems caused by home-loan defaults. Still, HSBC's CEO rejected claims the bank made unnecessarily risky U.S. loans. "This is not trailer park lending," Michael Geoghegan said. "This is Main Street America." Shares slid 0.4% to 85.91.
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Feds caution on subprime mortgages
AP   Saturday, 03 March 2007
AP - Federal bank regulators, worried about a surge in defaults on high-risk home mortgages, called on lenders to exercise caution in making subprime loans and strictly evaluate borrowers' ability to repay them.
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Feds urge caution on subprime mortgages
AP   Saturday, 03 March 2007
AP - Federal bank regulators, worried about a surge in defaults on high-risk home mortgages, on Friday called on lenders to exercise caution in making subprime loans and closely evaluate borrowers' ability to repay them.
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Deutsche Telekom sees acquisitions as way back to growth
AFP   Thursday, 01 March 2007

Deutsche Telekom chairman Rene Obermann said the German telecom giant sees overseas acquisitions as a chance to return to growth.(AFP/DDP/Henning Kaiser)AFP - Deutsche Telekom, reeling from cut-throat competition on its home market, sees acquisitions abroad as a chance to return to growth, the German telecom giant's new chairman Rene Obermann said on Thursday.


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