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Which is why you should start paying attention to this beleaguered industry. Because it's not really all that beleaguered. Banks long ago learned how to hedge their interest-rate risk. So margins aren't shrinking all that much or all that fast, and loan demand remains strong, as do earnings. Fed chief Alan Greenspan cryptically alluded to budding credit problems last week when he cautioned that bad loans get made in good times. But it was just a reminder. There's nothing pervasive out there like the speculative loans tied to real estate and emerging markets that brought bank...
...outlook for bank stocks couldn't be any uglier. We're a lock for higher short-term interest rates when the Fed meets March 21, and a rate boost or two after that seems likely before summer. Rising short-term rates squeeze bank profit margins and, more important, dampen loan demand. That's why bank stocks have been crashing faster than your favorite ATM, shedding 40% of their value since interest rates started climbing rapidly more than a year...
...only half-serious, though. She and her staff stock current periodicals like Sports Illustrated and Vibe and manage a popular 250-title video collection, with tapes ranging from "Strictly Ballroom" to "Varsity Blues" available on two-day loan...
...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...
...LOAN HOME Now you can get a home-mortgage loan for no money down and no mortgage insurance. Flagstar Bank charges 9.875% in interest on a 30-year fixed mortgage. (The national average is 8.47%.) If you take out a loan for $200,000, your monthly payments will be $1,737. HSH Associates surveyed other lenders who would match the no money down with an 8.92% rate. Monthly payments: $1,597, but you'd still have to pay an annual $200 mortgage-insurance bill. At least Flagstar lets you finance your closing costs...