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Credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings says the Australian prime mortgage market showed an increase in delinquencies in the first quarter of 2008.

New York promised to use the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site as a symbol of the city's and the U.S.'s resilience. But logistical challenges, a weakening economy and a sour credit market could make fulfillment of those promises less dramatic.

Wall street stock markets were knocked off four-month highs after a rise in core inflation and record high oil prices threatened to trim corporate profits and a leading banking analyst said the credit crisis could extend well beyond 2009

Boston Medical Center has announced plans to build a new ambulatory care building that will be paid for, in part, through a federally funded tax credit program.

Halifax, the country's biggest mortgage lender, today launched the first issue of bonds backed by mortgages in the UK since the credit crunch put the brakes on the once-burgeoning form of financing used to fund home loans.

HealthPartners announced today that it has earned three-year ' Excellent ' accreditation status, the highest level possible, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for its commercial managed care and ...

AMERICREDIT CORP. announced today the pricing of a $750 million offering of automobile receivables-backed securities under the AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust platform, which primarily includes subprime automobile loan contracts.

Home Depot and Target, two of the largest US retailers, illustrated the regional nature of pressures on US consumers as they announced quarterly falls in sales and increasing pressures on credit

Shares of credit card companies fell Tuesday after Moody's Investors Service said charge-off rates will continue to rise through 2009 and an analyst cut her estimates on Capital One Financial Corp. on concerns of a continuing decline in consumer liquidity.

The credit crisis made Oppenheimer (OPY) analyst Meredith Whitney a star. Today demonstrated she's still a force to be reckoned with.Last fall, as credit markets froze up and big banks reported huge, unexpected losses, wall street had a credibility problem: Its fancy securitized products were self-destructing. Into that credibility vacuum stepped Whitney, the loudest of the analysts predicting disaster for Citigroup (C) and other financial giants.Now, however, many believe the financial crisis is easing. Financial stocks have bounced back from the Bear Stearns (BSC) debacle.Others might be optimistic, but Whitney hasn't changed her tune. Today she released another gloomy prediction on the financial sector: 'We believe the current credit crisis is far from over,' she wrote. 'In fact, we believe that what lies ahead will be worse than what is behind us.'The culprit, she says, is the breakdown in the securitization market, which ultimately will cause huge losses for banks on consu