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		<title>Crisis Leftovers: Fannie, Freddie Force More Mortgage Buybacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are forcing the nation’s biggest lenders to buy back more of the badly-written mortgages that served as a trigger for the financial crisis, and a dash for cash has ensued.
That widely-distributed estimate comes from Oppenheimer &#038; Co. analyst Chris Kotowski, who projects U.S. banks could be hit with losses of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/crisis-leftovers-fannie-freddie-force-more-mortgage-buybacks/</link>
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		<title>Low cost refinance still availble in Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our success depends on our ability to see your loan through the entire process, from beginning to end, and communicate with you accordingly.  Happy, satisfied customers are more important to us than anything.  We are not just going to tell you this, we will show you through our actions, our communication and our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/low-cost-refinance-still-availble-in-texas/</link>
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		<title>Calif. woman, father wanted in mortgage fraud case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—Police are searching for a father-daughter pair accused of conspiring to get kickbacks from $4.1 million in fraudulent mortgage loans in the Bakersfield area. 
Thirty-one-year-old Guadalupe Ramirez, a former real estate agent, and 60-year-old Agustin Ramirez remained at large Friday after a Kern County Superior Court judge issued two $1 million warrants for their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/calif-woman-father-wanted-in-mortgage-fraud-case/</link>
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		<title>Refinance Mortgage Rates – Home Loans Quiet on the Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of March 2010 the Federal Reserve Bank is going to stop purchasing mortgage backed securities which is sure to have an affect on mortgage rates. Many analysts have predicted that mortgage rates are likely to move up by at least one full percentage point. Unfortunately the only way we will know is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/more-than-11-3-million-homeowners-%e2%80%94-nearly-one-fourth-of-all-americans-with-a-mortgage-%e2%80%94-owe-more-on-their-loan-than-their-home-is-now-worth-according-to-a-recent-report-released-by-f/</link>
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		<title>11.3 million homeowners underwater on mortgage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 11.3 million homeowners — nearly one-fourth of all Americans with a mortgage — owe more on their loan than their home is now worth, according to a recent report released by FirstAmerican CoreLogic.
More than 10 percent of people with mortgages owe 25 percent more than their home is worth.
The number of underwater mortgages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/11-3-million-homeowners-underwater-on-mortgage/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Rep. Frank causes stir in mortgage markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; The powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee caused a stir in the mortgage-backed securities market on Friday by suggesting that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bondholders do not have the same guarantees as Treasury bondholders.
Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told reporters that bondholders of major mortgage finance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/u-s-rep-frank-causes-stir-in-mortgage-markets/</link>
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		<title>30-year fixed mortgage rates dip below 5% again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The typical rate offered by lenders on 30-year mortgages slipped back below 5% this week, Freddie Mac said Thursday.
The mortgage giant&#8217;s weekly survey found that the average rate available on 30-year fixed-rate loans fell to 4.97%, down from 5.05% last week, with an average of 0.7% of the loan balance paid in upfront fees known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/30-year-fixed-mortgage-rates-dip-below-5-again/</link>
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		<title>Help for First-Time Buyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOOKING for a fixed-rate mortgage with a competitively low interest rate, but armed with only 3 percent for a down payment, a low credit score and a modest annual income?

Thanks to an infusion of federal support late last year through the economic stimulus package, the State of New York Mortgage Agency, or Sonyma, is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/help-for-first-time-buyers/</link>
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		<title>Nuveen Mortgage Opportunity Term Fund 2 Invests in Public-Private Investment Partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Following the successful February offering of the Nuveen Mortgage Opportunity Term Fund 2 /quotes/comstock/13*!jmt/quotes/nls/jmt (JMT 25.01, -0.01, -0.04%) , the fund today announced it has committed to invest in a public-private investment partnership formed pursuant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Public-Private Investment Program (&#8220;PPIP&#8221;). 
The fund&#8217;s investment objective is to generate attractive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mortgagenewsreview.com/mortgage/nuveen-mortgage-opportunity-term-fund-2-invests-in-public-private-investment-partnership/</link>
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		<title>ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. Declares First Quarter 2010 Dividend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Directors of ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. /quotes/comstock/11k!amrr (AMRR 7.15, +0.25, +3.62%) (common) and /quotes/comstock/11k!amrr.w (AMRR.W 0.15, +0.01, +7.14%) (warrants) (&#8220;ARMOUR&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per common share for the first quarter of 2010. The dividend will be paid on Thursday, April 29, 2010 to stockholders of [...]]]></description>
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