The Florida Home Owner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – James Lockhart, the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will soon step down after more than three years as overseer for the mortgage finance companies, an administration official said….(read more) //

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From Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading : Our Practices in Handling Electronic Order Flow To our Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, LP clients – Given the pace of change in the equities market structure and the recent public dialogue about trading…(read more) //

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From the WSJ: Farm Real-Estate Values Post Rare Drop The U.S. Agriculture Department said in its annual report that the value of all land and buildings on U.S. farms averaged $2,100 an acre Jan. 1, down 3.2% from last year. The decline in farm real-estate…(read more) //

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Ray submits: If you listen to Cramer commercial real estate is the place to be, he mostly points to the increase in certain equity prices in current trading to make his point along with some parallels drawn from the Savings and Loan Crisis. However, rising…(read more) //

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