Stocks rebound on bargain hunting
NEW YORK – Stocks rebounded sharply Wednesday as investors, growing more optimistic about chances for an interest rate cut, sought bargains after the previous session’s huge tumble. The Dow Jones industrials gained almost 250 points.

How Lower Home Prices Hurt Everything
The continuing decline in housing prices is sure to exacerbate stock market weakness and tighten consumer spending

Impossible to Track Troubled Mortgages
It’s hard to know how scared to be if you don’t know the size of the threat. No, not terrorism, housing. The U.S. mortgage-lending business is a sprawling, varied enterprise that no one regulator oversees, making it impossible to know how many mortgages or lenders whose deposits aren’t insured by the government are in trouble.

Fed not rushing to bail out investors with rate cut: report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is not rushing to cut benchmark interest rates because it wants to break investors of the view that the central bank is there to bail them out, an article in the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.

Carlyle bails out its $20bn Dutch fund
Carlyle, the private equity group, has been forced to double the size of a loan to its Dutch-listed investment vehicle after the struggling fund embarked on a string of asset sales and admitted it had been unable to meet recent margin calls… John Stomber, the chief executive of Carlyle Capital Corporation, … described the current credit crisis as worse than that which forced the bailout of Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund, in 1998.

Healthy Staff, Healthy Savings
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