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Today's Mortgage Terms starting with F Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac): A semi government agency that acquires conventional loans that are underwritten to its specific guidelines. These guidelines are an industry standard for residential conventional lending. Federal Housing Administration (FHA): A federal agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which insures residential mortgage loans made by private lenders and sets standards for underwriting mortgage loans. Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae): This agency purchases loans that are underwritten to its specific guidelines. These guidelines are an industry standard for residential conventional lending. FHA Loans: Fixed or adjustable-rate loans that are insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The purpose of FHA loans is to make housing more affordable, especially for first-time homebuyers. First Mortgage: A mortgage which is in first lien, taking priority over all other liens. In case of a foreclosure, the first mortgage will be repaid before any other mortgages. Fixed Rate Loan: Fixed-rate loans have interest rates and payments that are fixed through out the term of the loan. Foreclosure: A legal process in which a mortgaged property may be liquidated to pay off a mortgage loan that is in default. View all Terms

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Forget the subprime mortgage mess — Collin Peterson in Europe trying ... - DL-Online
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., left for Europe this weekend to discuss ways to regulate little-known and difficult-to-understand “credit default swaps.” “It has to be global,” Peterson said, so he and other House Agriculture Committee ...

Kent County foreclosures climb, but some find hope - MLive.com
Press Photo/Hoyt E. Carrier II Kathy Broekstra found help through Home Repair Services to keep her home on Grand Rapids' Northwest Side. GRAND RAPIDS -- Kathy Broekstra became a statistic this year, but in a good way: She avoided foreclosure in a ...

Foreclosure Response - WZZM 13
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - Foreclosure rates continue to rise in West Michigan. The Community Research Institute at Grand Valley State University reports foreclosures in Kent County went up 28% in the first half of this year. CRI released a similar report ...

How To Cope With The Flood Of Foreclosures? - Forbes
Despite soaring foreclosure rates, President Bush and other Republicans have not made this a top priority, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has refused to draw on the $700 billion rescue fund to help homeowners, saying that saving financial ...

Bank chief hints at more interest rate cuts - Times Online
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, said today that the lack of lending by banks to consumers and businesses was the most pressing issue facing the economy and hinted that interest rates would need to be cut further. Mr King told the cross ...

Deal dead; firm’s future precarious - Richmond Times-Dispatch
There is no Thanksgiving for LandAmerica Financial Corp. this year. The corporate shell that was to have transferred the venerable Henrico County-based insurer to a Florida competitor was to be called Thanksgiving Corp. The Nov. 7 merger agreement ...

Brown’s ‘Churchill’ Moment Masks Failure of Regulator He Built - Bloomberg
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Gordon Brown isn’t known for making quick decisions. He agonized for months over whether to call early elections after becoming U.K. prime minister in June 2007, before deciding against it. When financial and commodity ...

Continuous news, views, and abuse by the Reason staff - Reason.com
The great, unlamented mascot of Pets.com and the tech bubble, Sock Puppet, comes to Congress with a paw out for taxpayer money and inadvertently suggests a way forward through the current moment that doesn't involve massive giveaways. Approximately ...

Waco area officials sound off on latest economic bailout effort - Waco Tribune-Herald
A Baylor University economist said Tuesday that the proposed $800 billion stimulus package unveiled by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department hits the target in one area: consumer spending. The Fed said it would provide up to $200 billion to ...

House Race Update: Ohio Sup. Ct. to Rule on Franklin County Votes - ABC News Blogs
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Ohio Supreme Court -- and not a federal district court -- is the proper forum to decide how approximately 1,000 challenged provisional votes should be ...