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• Paulson, Bernanke Say Housing Woes May Last

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Paulson, Bernanke, Say, Housing, Woes, May, Last, Ben Bernanke, Henry M Paulson, Douglas Elmendorf, U S Department Of The Treasury, United States, U S Federal Reserve, The Thomson Corporation, Ed Rombach, Georgetown University Law Center, National Association Of Home Bui

  The immediate sense of crisis that enveloped world financial markets in August has mostly passed. But the troubles surrounding the U.S. housing market are only beginning, the nation's two top economic policymakers said in separate speeches this week.

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• Capital One Reports Loss From Closing Mortgage Unit

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Capital, One, Reports, Loss, From, Closing, Mortgage, Unit, Capital One Financial Corporation, Richard Fairbank, Economy Com Inc, Stifel Nicolaus Amp Co Inc, The Thomson Corporation, Christopher Brender, Mclean Virginia, Scott Hoyt

  Capital One Financial of McLean posted its first quarterly loss ever, from the expense of shutting down its mortgage lender, and warned of additional challenges in the credit card and auto finance businesses.

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• CACI Loses Director in Governance Dispute

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Caci, Loses, Director, Governance, Dispute, Caci International Inc, Jack P London, Peter A Derow, U S Securities And Exchange Commission, Nell Minow, Cbs Corporation, Cbs Inc, Computer Sciences Corporation, Nyse Euronext, The Thomson Corporation, The Washington Post

  A member of CACI International's board of directors has resigned in protest of chairman and former chief executive Jack P. London's appointment as chairman of the board's investor relations committee.

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• Crunch May Hit Insurers Of Bonds

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Crunch, May, Hit, Insurers, Bonds, Ambac Financial Group Inc, Peter R Poillon, Fitch Inc, Moody S Corporation, Morgan Stanley, The Thomson Corporation, Ed Rombach, Stanislas Rouyer, Sylvain Raynes, Thomas Abruzzo, Wall Street, United States

  NEW YORK -- Investors already burned by turmoil from the credit crunch are now worried about unwanted surprises in the industry that insures bonds.

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• Municipal Bond Deals Squeezed By Credit Crisis

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Municipal, Bond, Deals, Squeezed, Credit, Crisis, Miami Dade County, The Thomson Corporation, Robert Nelson, Stanley Milesky, Wall Street, Maryland, Virginia, Washington Dc, Ambac Financial Group Inc, Baltimore, Chicago, Lasana Mack, Rachel E Baum, Brightwood Elementary

  The widening credit crunch is making it harder for cities and school systems to get money for buildings, ballparks and other vital projects from the $2.5 trillion market for municipal bonds, a sector of Wall Street that rarely sees trouble.

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• Losses Stack Up

  Published: December 4, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Losses, Stack, Florida, Montana, Carroll South, Maryland, Virginia, Axon Financial, The Thomson Corporation, Ed Rombach, Stephen Hegarty, Susan Mangiero, Tampa, Wall Street, Hillsborough County School District, Kings County, Montana Board Of Investments, Washington Dc

  NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- Local governments and school districts in Florida scrambled Monday to assess the damage to their investment portfolios from subprime mortgage loans, as the credit crisis reached into pockets of the investment world previously thought to be out of harm's way.

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• Insurer Of Bonds Loses Top Rating

  Published: January 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Insurer, Bonds, Loses, Top, Rating, Ambac Financial Group Inc, Wall Street, Standard Amp Poor S, Ed Rombach, Fitch Inc, The Thomson Corporation, Dick Smith, Robert J Genader, Thomas Abruzzo

  NEW YORK, Jan. 18 -- Ambac Financial Group, the nation's second largest insurer of bonds, lost its precious AAA rating from Fitch Ratings on Friday over concerns that the company no longer had enough capital to guarantee billions of dollars in debt now imperiled by the subprime mortgage crisis.

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• Thomson Approved To Buy Reuters

  Published: February 19, 2008, 1:46 pm

  Tags: News, Acquisitions, Ccb, Finance, News Firms, Reuters, Thomson Corporation, Usdj

  has been reported that the Thomson Corporation and Reuters announced today that the European Commission, US Department of Justice and Canadian Competition Bureau have all approved Thomson's proposition to acquire Reuters. Thomson has agreed to sell a copy of the Thomson Fundamentals database and Reuters has agreed to sell a copy of the Reuters

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• Spring's Rally Fades, and Dark Clouds Settle In

  Published: July 6, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Spring S, Rally, Fades, And, Dark, Clouds, Settle, Mark A Coffelt, United States, Mike Tarsala, Citigroup Inc, First Horizon National Corporation, The Thomson Corporation, Wall Street, U S Federal Reserve, Charles Mcmillion, Christopher Burdick, Christopher Low, Tom Win

  Once again, it was a disappointing quarter for U.S. stocks, as a spring rally fueled by investors' optimism that the worst of the financial crisis was over gave way to concerns about inflation, soaring oil prices and renewed fears about the ongoing credit crunch.

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