Posted To: After 830 data, thanks to a round of real money buying, the bond market improved off overnight lows and yields tested recent resistance levels. The 10yr yield moved down to 3.57%, but failed to break through this resistance

Posted To: Friday I made the mistake to saying that I thought down payment assistance programs had vanished, going the way of the Ivory Billed Wood Pecker or the lavish mortgage banker Christmas party. It turns out that seller-funded DPA's

Posted To: (UPDATED AT 10:00AM ) The Commerce Department released November New Residential Construction: Building Permits, Housing Starts, and Housing Completions data this morning. Housing Starts data estimates how much new residential real estate construction occurred in the previous month.

Posted To: CPI and New Construction Data is out.... Consumer level inflation was "on the screws" while Building Permits were better than expected. 10s havent made much progress in either direction after the data and the FN 4.5 has cheapened

Posted To: Another busy day awaits markets as the Federal Open Market Committee concludes its final monetary policy meeting of the decade. Ahead of new Fed statements markets are often cautious but this morning, two hours before the open, risk

Owen County, Indiana's decision to allow all-terrain vehicles on county roads is raising concerns that drivers won't install safety equipment or obtain proper registrations and insurance required ...

Insurance agents in Shreveport and Ruston, La., have been cited by the Louisiana Department of Insurance for allegedly participating in fraudulent or illegal activities.Carlos Vandarryl Boston of ...

Chicago-based ASPN Insurance Agency LLC formed a new alliance with InStrategy Group, a consulting firm specializing in solutions for the insurance industry. InStrategy Group will ...

A Texas court in San Antonio has affirmed the jury award of $70 million plus interest in a workers' compensation case brought against Discover Property & Casualty Insurance Company, a ...

Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, Monica Lindeen, finalized a settlement with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. regarding allegations the company misled investors.In the agreement, ...

Allstate announced today that it will sell a recovered 1965 Volkswagen bus at auction and donate the proceeds to Lydia Place, a nonprofit organization in Washington state serving homeless women ...

State Farm Florida will remain in Florida under a negotiated agreement that allows it to cancel about 15 percent of its policies and raise rates 14.8 percent. The deal also allows its contract ...

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler has submitted his resignation to Governor O'Malley effective Jan. 8, 2010, to accept an appointment as chief counsel to the federal Food ...

New York officials recently directed State Farm Insurance Co. to give 113 Long Island property owners the opportunity to renew their homeowners' policies with the company.The action came as the ...

The New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud honored its YouTube video contest winners at the its recent annual meeting. A group of SUNY Cortland students took the top ...

The insurance company for the city of Miami Beach has been ordered to pay $5.75 million in damages to the families of a man and the woman he tried to save from drowning.Monticello Insurance Co. ...

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A judge said this week he would rule by Jan. 15 on whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the families of two students slain in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech.After hearing arguments, ...

An Alabama jury has sided with a railroad in a series of lawsuits filed by the relatives of four men killed in a train crash almost three years ago.Chilton County jurors ruled in favor of CSX ...

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