Personal Loans

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Rates for U.S. 30 year mortgages dropped to the lowest level on record as the number of homeowners seeking to reduce their monthly payments soared. The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan for the week ending Jan. 19 fell to 3.88 [...]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territory (IRIN) – Izz Tawil draws a black circle on the flip-chart in his office in Ramallah, capital of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). “The Palestinian economy is a closed cash-circle,” the general manager of the Palestinian microfinance network Sharakeh explains. He goes on to draw several small arrows [...]

AHN Sports Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN Sports) – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is excited over Thierry Henry’s return on a two-month loan from the New York Red Bulls. “I have done this for footballing reasons because I need a striker for two months and I don’t have one at the moment,” Wenger said, [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – How low can they go? That is the question many people are asking after the average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages hit new lows again for the week ending Dec. 22. The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages fell to a record [...]

The Media Line Staff Jerusalem, Israel David Rosenberg (The Medi – Home prices – an anxious subject for both Israeli consumers and policy makers as they first raced higher and then suddenly started to sink – remain a threat to the economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned on Monday. Although the [...]

John Nestor – AHN Sports Correspondent Santa Clara, CA, United States (AHN Sports) – The San Francisco 49ers might need a name change soon. The 49ers and the City of Santa Clara announced Friday that they have secured funding for a new stadium project. Santa Clara is about 45 miles south of San Francisco. The [...]

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The Supreme Court plans to confront consumers’ anger toward the mortgage lending industry Monday with a hearing in a lawsuit against a real estate title company. The plaintiff, Denise Edwards, is trying to sue First American Financial Corp. in a class action [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Rochester, MI, United States (AHN) – Wednesday’s CNBC Republican debate in Michigan wasn’t without a few gaffs and gaps. The Republican candidates stressed their opposition to U.S. government bailouts for banks, Europe and the auto industry. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney rejected a suggestion that the U.S. should help [...]

Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – There is nothing average about the new average student loan debt. The average debt of college seniors who graduated in 2010 with student loans increased 5 percent from a year earlier to $25,250. The amount is the highest level ever. The figure [...]

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Cleveland, OH, United States (AHN) – Some U.S. banks have started to demolish foreclosed properties and are even paying for the cost, which saves the financial institutions from maintenance, taxes and real estate marketing expenses. In some areas, the properties that were demolished became community parks, church extensions and parking [...]