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  • Foreclosures drop for 2nd month in February: RealtyTrac (Reuters)

    An arrow points down in the window of a branch of Northern Rock in London March 10, 2010.    Nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock's headline losses shrank in 2009, helped by rising net interest income and lower loan losses in the second half, though it said loan writedowns would stay high in 2010.       REUTERS/Luke MacGregor   (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS) POLITICS)Reuters - U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings dropped for a second straight month in February, and notched the smallest annual increase in four years as housing-rescue efforts contained activity, a report released on Thursday showed.




  • Quinn seeks income tax hike for schools (AP)

    Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn delivers his State of the Budget address to a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly on the House floor at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Calling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just one percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education.




  • Home loan demand nudges higher in latest week (Reuters)

    An arrow points down in the window of a branch of Northern Rock in London March 10, 2010.    Nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock's headline losses shrank in 2009, helped by rising net interest income and lower loan losses in the second half, though it said loan writedowns would stay high in 2010.       REUTERS/Luke MacGregor   (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS) POLITICS)Reuters - U.S. mortgage applications nudged higher last week, reflecting increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates trekked higher, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.




  • Nationalized UK bank Northern Rock back in profit (AP)
    AP - Nationalized mortgage lender Northern Rock said Wednesday that it returned to profit in the second half of 2009 as interest income rose and losses on loans fell.

  • One Congressman's Solution for Boosting Small Business Loans (The Motley Fool)
    The Motley Fool - The first Friday of every month brings the all-important employment report. February's numbers were better than anticipated. The United States lost only 36,000 jobs, versus the 68,000 that experts expected. This compares with 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009. Still, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7%, with the unofficial rate stuck around a whopping 16%.

  • Commercial delinquency lower than other mortgages (AP)
    AP - Commercial mortgages were among the best-performing loans and leases held by banks and thrifts in the fourth quarter of last year, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Tuesday.

  • Management Education on the Fly (BusinessWeek)
    BusinessWeek - Who got us into this mess? It's not just greedy mortgage lenders and irresponsible economists who are responsible for the current financial crisis. Leaders, so called, have played a role too, by not managing their companies and so being detached from what was going on in them. And behind much of this has been an educational process that encouraged such detachment. As I've argued at length in my book, Managers not MBAs, the MBA is fine education -- but in the functions of business, not the exercise of managing. ...

  • Summary Box: AIG's $15.5B Alico sale to MetLife (AP)
    AP - THE SALE: American International Group Inc. sold its American Life Insurance Co. division, or Alico, to MetLife Inc. for $15.5 billion. The deal is AIG's second big asset sale in two weeks. On March 1, it said it would sell its AIA Group unit to Prudential PLC for $35.5 billion.

  • AIG sells Alico unit to MetLife for $15.5 billion (AP)

    FILE - In this March 18, 2009 file photo, an AIG office building is shown in New York. American International Group will sell its overseas life and health insurance unit for $15.5 billion to MetLife Inc., the insurer said Monday, March 8, 2010, as it attempts to repay billions in government aid.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - American International Group Inc. said Monday that it will sell its American Life Insurance Co. division for $15.5 billion to MetLife Inc. The government-approved deal, AIG's second big asset sale in two weeks, will give the insurer more cash to repay the billions of bailout dollars it still owes the government.




  • MetLife seals Alico deal after two-year quest (Reuters)

    A statue stands atop Grand Central Station in front of the MetLife building in New York, October 8, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - MetLife Inc pursued AIG's foreign life insurance business for two years before finally clinching a $15.5 billion purchase that will give it beachheads in 47 nations from Peru to Bangladesh.





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