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...good news is that chances of avoiding foreclosure are greater than they've ever been. Fannie Mae is now negotiating to let borrowers keep their homes in 53% of problem-loan cases, a sizable jump over the 35% it was "working out" five years ago. Other lenders are following suit for good reason: a foreclosure costs them $2,500 on average. Says Duncan: "Nobody wins in a foreclosure...
...Lowe's, whose stock has risen 42% in the past 12 months, no longer looks like a bargain. Ditto for sub-prime lenders like Countrywide, which may be hit hard by the upturn in mortgage delinquencies, says portfolio manager David Dreman. However, Dreman says, big lenders such as Fannie Mae, which have less exposure to risky credit, should continue to perform well. Homebuilder stocks such as Centex and Pulte Homes are still relatively cheap, and favorable demographics make them attractive long-term investments, says Muhlenkamp. --Cybele Weisser
...roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead of expensed. These factors don't mean you should shun a stock; they mean you should check its teeth. Firms with aggressive pension assumptions include IBM and SBC Communications. Among the off-balance-sheet biggies are General Electric and Fannie Mae. And outfits in the cable and telecom industries seem to capitalize everything short of the potted plants...
Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
...parents, like thousands of Xishuangbanna's Dai tribespeople, packed up what they could carry, along with their five children, and set off on foot. They made it past the border, trudged bandit-infested goat tracks through Burma, and didn't stop until they reached the Thai border town of Mae Sai. "Growing up in Thailand, I was fascinated by my parents' stories of home," says Chai, 37. "So when I was 17, I came back." He found work as a goldsmith, obtained a Chinese ID card, and last March opened Chai Chuan Chin?fulfilling a lifelong dream...