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Federal Reserve Cuts Key Rate by 0.75 Percent

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: March 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, to 2.25 percent, a cut that was less than investors had been hoping for even though it was one of the deepest […]

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Fed Cuts Its Lending Rate a Quarter Point

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 16, 2008
Filed at 8:45 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said new steps announced by the central bank Sunday should help squeezed financial institutions get cash infusions– a fresh effort to provide relief to a spreading credit crisis that threatens to plunge the […]

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HUD releases new California conforming loan limits

By Matt Carter, Wednesday, March 5, 2008.
HUD released the new FHA loan limits for California today — the rest of the country will get theirs tomorrow — and median home price data that allows you to calculate the new conforming loan limit for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (it’s 125 percent of the median home […]

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