Archive for July 13th, 2008

A US airman sits with a machine gun at the tail of a Chinook helicopter flying over the eastern province of Kunar. Militants killed nine NATO soldiers in an assault on a remote base in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces fighting the Taliban insurgency(AFP/File/Sardar Ahmad)AFP – Militants killed nine NATO soldiers in an assault on a remote base in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces fighting the Taliban insurgency.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

The headquarters of mortgage lender Fannie Mae is shown in Washington in this file photo from October 3, 2006. (Jason Reed/Files/Reuters)Reuters – A U.S government plot to shore up
mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
helped cool markets on Monday but did small to allay
fears about the health of the U.S. financial system.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

Fannie, Freddie Deflected Risk Warnings

Written by on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 in Latest News.

Though the implosion of investor confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last week was sudden, the worries driving it have been the subject of countless warnings over many years.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back



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