Linda Young – Fourth Estate Cooperative Writer Athens, Greece (4E) – Fitch Ratings downgraded the credit rating of Greece’s government again on Thursday. Greece’s credit rating dropped from a B- to a CCC, which puts it deeper into junk bond territory. That means many investors cannot buy Greek debt even if they thought it was [...]
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Fitch downgrades Greek sovereign debt
Posted by davidguide on May 20th, 2012
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Comments OffU.S. Treasury should make $15 billion profit on AIG bailout
Posted by davidguide on May 9th, 2012
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. government will likely make a $15.1 billion profit from bailing out insurance giant American International Group Inc., according to a congressional watchdog panel’s report. The Government Accountability Office report came out on Monday. The GAO said the size of the profit [...]
Costco to offer mortgages
Posted by davidguide on April 28th, 2012
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Milk, bananas, bread, paper towels, mortgages. Yup, add mortgages to your Costco shopping list. It’s true; the USA’s largest warehouse membership chain now offers mortgages. After a year of testing the waters, Costco is launching a full service mortgage lending program on [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: bananas, Costco, first choice bank, full service mortgage, loyal customers, mortgage lending, news reporter, paper towels, service article, shopping list Comments OffMedicare to tie doctors’ pay to quality, cost of care
Posted by davidguide on April 17th, 2012
United States (KaiserHealth) – Twenty thousand physicians in four Midwest states received a glimpse into their financial future last month. Landing in their e-mail inboxes were links to reports from Medicare showing the amount their patients cost on average as well as the quality of the care they provided. The reports also showed how Medicare [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: accurate assessments, amount, care, care organizations, change, Doctor, e mail, federal health program, health care law, health care spending, hospital payments, Medicare, midwest states, patient, Pay, physician, quality cost, resource use, Use, way Comments OffReport: E-books encouraging reading in America
Posted by davidguide on April 6th, 2012
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – E-books are encouraging more American adults to read. New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that about one-fifth of U.S. adults have read an e-book in the past year. If the data is expanded to include Americans over the [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: american adults, book readers, book users, bricks and mortar, e book, e books, pew internet and american life, pew internet and american life project, pew study, reading device Comments OffJustice Dept. Broadens Investigations of Terrorism in Private Records
Posted by davidguide on March 26th, 2012
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. Justice Department plans to extend the length of time intelligence agencies can retain records on private citizens, even if there is no evidence they are involved in terrorism. The guidelines Attorney General Eric Holder signed this week for the National [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: house intelligence committee, intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act, intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004, landing in detroit, legal correspondent, mike rogers, national counterterrorism center, national security council, privacy advocates, time intelligence Comments OffGold falls following Fed policy decision
Posted by davidguide on March 15th, 2012
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Gold futures fell Wednesday in the aftermath of the Fed’s policy decision on Tuesday. In early afternoon trading, gold futures for April delivery sank $49.50, or 2.9 percent, to $1,645 a troy ounce. The yellow metal is on track for its third [...]
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Posted by davidguide on March 4th, 2012
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Mortgage rates dipped in the week ending March 1 and hovered just above record lows set a few weeks back. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage dropped to 3.90 percent from 3.95 percent. This [...]
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Posted by davidguide on February 22nd, 2012
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Stocks rallied Tuesday and propelled the Dow above the psychologically important 13.000 level. It was the first time the Dow surpassed the mark since May 2008. Buoying markets was news that eurozone finance ministers had inked a deal for a second Greek [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: consumer staples, energy materials, existing homes sales, home price index, index oil, market participants, mortgage applications, oil inventories, thursday market, troy ounce Comments OffCIA site down, Anonymous claims responsibility
Posted by davidguide on February 11th, 2012
Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The CIA website stayed inaccessible hours after the first reports of the outage on Friday as an elusive group of hackers claimed responsibility in tweets. “CIA TANGO DOWN” read an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account. According to defense pundits, the expression is military-speak for eliminating [...]
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