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Today's Mortgage Terms starting with L

Lender:

The bank, mortgage company or mortgage broker providing the loan.

Loan Application:

A statement of personal and financial information needed to apply for a loan.

Loan Application Fee:

A fee applied by a lender to cover the initial costs of putting through a loan application. The fee could include the cost of getting a property appraisal, a credit report and a lock-in fee and other closing costs incurred to complete the transaction.

Loan Origination Fee:

Fee charged by a lender for the administrative costs of processing a loan.

Loan to Value Ratio (LTV):

The balance of the mortgage outstanding as a percentage of the home's price.

Lock or Lock In:

A lender's guarantee of an interest rate for a specific period of time. The time period is usually between the loan application approval and loan closing. The borrower wants the lock to stay in effect until closing.

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Legal Boutiques Sue UBS, Citigroup as Large Law Firms Beg Off - Bloomberg
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- When Michael McNicholas, legal counsel at HSH Nordbank AG in London, needed help suing UBS AG to recover $275 million in subprime mortgage losses, he didn't bother turning to the big London law firms for help. ``It's well known ...

Legal Boutiques Sue UBS, Citigroup as Others Beg Off (Update1) - Bloomberg
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- When Michael McNicholas, legal counsel at HSH Nordbank AG in London, needed help suing UBS AG to recover $275 million in subprime mortgage losses, he didn't bother turning to the big London law firms for help. ``It's well known ...

Hotel developer snags a construction loan - Houston Chronicle
Hotel developer Nick Massad just closed on a construction loan to build a $55 million Embassy Suites near the George R. Brown Convention Center. Massad, president of Houston-based American Liberty Hospitality, was ready to start construction on the ...

Gradual decline accelerates into quick shutdown - MSNBC
The end came swiftly, and suddenly, for Franklin Bank Corp. But the downfall slowly took shape more than a year ago when cracks formed in the holding company’s mortgage and loan operations across the country. Former executives in charge of Franklin ...

Bruce Williams: Retirement money should be for you - Reading Eagle
Dear Bruce: My wife and I have a universal life policy for each of us that is worth $750,000 combined. It also has a surrender value of about $60,000. We've been paying for this policy for 20 years and it costs us $300 a month. We have been very ...

Paulson, Bernanke testify, get grilled - MSNBC Firstread
Barney Frank 's House Financial Services Committee heard today from three panels of witnesses on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The economy's big guns were on the first panel: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson , Federal Reserve ...

Church hierarchy stalled priest ousters, Weakland testifies - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nov. 20, 2008 2:34 p.m. | Now-retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland, in a videotaped deposition released today, said his attempts to oust sexually abusive priests from the priesthood was stalled by a protective church hierarchy despite his pleas for ...

Miller Electric to eliminate 95 jobs - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nov. 19, 2008 | Appleton-based Miller Electric Mfg. Co. said today it will eliminate 95 jobs, or about 6% of its 1,500-person work force in response to the national economic situation and the slowing demand for Miller's commercial and industrial ...

November 2008 - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com
His Eminence James Francis Cardinal Stafford criticized President-elect Barack Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,“ and said he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform,” Thursday night in Keane Auditorium during his ...

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Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. Great financial slapfights in history: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. J.P. Morgan and William Jennings Bryan . And now, AIG CEO Edward ...

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