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Africa-Israel unit securitizes NIS 840m debt with Migdal
Half Jubilee, which owns half of the Tel Aviv Government Complex, has made one of the largest securitization deals in recent years.

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Euro/US: Higher Short Term?
As the U.S. and Europe are trying to cope with new financial challenges, uncertainty is bouncing from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Currencies are stretched to the extremes and the wind of opportunity appears to be switching again in favour of the Euro against the U.S. dollar.

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Why Wall Street doesn’t seem worried about default
The CEO of a big bank says a U.S. default could be catastrophic for the economy. The head of the Federal Reserve warns of chaos. And a credit rating agency threatens to take away the country’s coveted triple-A status.

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State’s 344 foreclosures in June lowest since January 2009
Effects of Hawaii’s new foreclosure law severely curtailed activity against delinquent borrowers in June.

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Royal Host Inc. Refinances $25 Million Operating Facility
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA– – Royal Host Inc. today announced that it has completed the refinancing of its current $25 Million one-year demand facility to a $25 Million three-year committed facility with HSBC Bank Canada.

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The Center for Public Integrity: Borrower Nightmares: $700 dormitory fee costs family its car
By Amy Biegelsen, iWatch News When Mildred Morris’s son won a coveted spot at the New York drama and performing arts college that trained…

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Real Estate News: Mortgage Rates Decline on Weak Jobs Data
Here is a look at real-estate news in todays WSJ:

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Las Vegas Attorneys Build Business By Telling Homeowners To Stop Paying Mortgages
Your neighbors aren’t paying on their mortgages so why should you? That provocative question is being posed by a Las Vegas law firm’s TV ad campaign, and the commercials are stirring debate. The Haines & Krieger law firm’s spots, promising to show homeowners

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Parties assess debt options as time runs short
(AP) — Congress and the Obama administration are weighing their options as time closes in on the deadline for raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and the White House may call another meeting Sunday of congressional leaders and President Bar read more

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Nathan Newman: The Cost of Lost Privacy, Part 3: Google, the Subprime Meltdown and Antitrust Implications
Most people don’t think of Google as a key player in the financial debacle that crashed the economy, but like almost every company making billions of dollars in the last decade, a chunk of Google’s profits were coming straight from the subprime mortgage lenders.

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