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AFP - US stocks ended a tumultuous 2007 with a whimper Monday, retreating in the face of a new year fraught with worries about economic growth, a housing meltdown and tight credit.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Horizon Bancorp said Monday that it increased its provision for loan and lease losses expense by $1.4 million in December, citing credit quality deterioration in its wholesale mortgage and indirect auto loan portfolios. The commercial bank-holding company expects its fourth-quarter provision expense to total $1.77 million, compared to the third-quarter provision of $550,000. However, Horizon still sees 2007 full-year earnings exceeding those of 2006.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc and Merrill Lynch & Co were the world's top underwriters of stocks and bonds in 2007, measured by volume and reported fees, despite being at the epicenter of the global credit crisis.
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Analysis:Doyen of fund managers Anthony Bolton says he fears the credit crunch will hit the real economy in 2008 - and names two sectors in which stocks might emerge relativley unscathed
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To use one of football's well-worn cliches, 2007 was a year of two halves. First the FTSE soared on a takeover boom, then interest rate fears and the credit crunch blew all that away
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Europe stocks endeda half-session of trading flat, but finished the year with the first losses since 2002 as worries about the credit crunch and rising energy prices stymied action.
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Sales of previously owned homes nudged up in November, but that didn't improve the broader picture of a feeble housing market racked by record-high foreclosures and harder-to-get credit.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As more banks report write-downs tied to the global credit crunch, analysts say Wachovia Corp may have losses lurking in an area that has garnered less investor attention.
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Reuters - As more banks report write-downs tied to the global credit crunch, analysts say Wachovia Corp may have losses lurking in an area that has garnered less investor attention.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Europe stocks on Monday ended a half-session of trading steady, but finished the year with the first losses since 2002 as worries about the credit crunch and rising energy prices stymied action.
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FTSE 100 rises 4% during 2007, but loses 7-year highs in the wake of crisis on wholesale credit markets
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Figures from the Central Bank show that lending growth slipped again in November, with the adjusted annual rate of private sector credit growth dropping to 17.1% from 18.5% in October.
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After riding into 2007 on a wave of profits, investment banks face stiff challenges in 2008.
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London Scottish Bank is to take a charge of up to ?22m sterling to cover losses at its unsecured consumer credit business.
NY Post: Business
REAL ESTATE FOR commercial real es tate, the good times seen in the beginning of 2007 proved to be too good to last. At the end of 2006, we warned, "The city's commercial real estate market is in the middle of such a perfect Zen balance that...
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THE dollar closed stronger on the last trading day of 2007, breaking through 88 US cents thanks to strong private sector credit data and weak US new home sales numbers.
SFGate: Business & Technology
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive...
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The subprime industry succeeded in defeating state efforts to limit risky lending to borrowers with weak credit during the housing boom. Ameriquest, until recently one of the biggest lenders, distributed over $20 million in political donations and swayed lawmakers in New Jersey and Georgia.