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...Swiss franc. With the bailout of Swiss investment bank UBS, how does that change your calculus...
...have had to sell for two hundred years has been the soundness of their currency. I, for the first time in my life, have started asking myself questions about the Swiss franc because of the UBS deal. It never occurred to me that the Swiss would do this [the bailout]. I have not started selling my Swiss francs. I have stopped buying them. I'm watching to see how it works...
...General Motors is lobbying federal officials for sizable financial assistance. In addition to the $25 billion in government loans promised to the industry in an energy bill for production of fuel-efficient vehicles, GM's lending arm, GMAC, is exploring ways to access funds in the $700 billion federal-bailout package, while the company reportedly is also seeking cash injections to cover potential merger costs. GM and Chrysler employ more than 200,000 U.S. workers and support many more jobs in the auto-parts and sales industries; GM's stock has fallen more than 80% since January. White House press...
Oddly enough, talk of a possible federal mortgage bailout is slowing deals. "Recently, a lot of the financial institutions have stopped accepting short sales to find out if the government is going to buy their loans that are in default. They're waiting to see what happens with the recent rescue plan to buy back mortgages," says Fred Arnold, president of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers. In Miami, banks can't wait to throw underwater mortgages into the government's pool. Says Zalewski, "I can see the Federal Government giving them a mulligan and allowing them to sort...
...struggling homeowners would be covered in a bailout, another Administration official stressed. The plan is to assist only people with sustainable home loans, not borrowers who made bad decisions and are stuck with mortgages they clearly can't pay off. "We're not doing anything for people who are under water," said the official. The FDIC plan would attempt to filter out "the people we can't help. There are foreclosures that will go forward." The process of sorting good from bad loans would also provide clarity for mortgage markets by helping financial institutions assess where the risks...