The News Review:
- An Auction That Google Was Content to Lose
- Student Lenders Stifled by Auction-Rate Bond Failures (Update1)
- Get a steal of a deal at real estate auctions
- Ambac to address auction-rate securities, variable debt
An Auction That Google Was Content to Lose
New York Times – Apr 4, 2008
The spectrum would have cost $4. 7 billion, Google’s biggest single investment. Winning would have thrust the company into the wireless business and could have sent Google’s battered shares even lower. Google and other companies began publicly discussing some of the auction’s behind-the-scenes action after an anti-collusion rule prohibiting participants from commenting was lifted Thursday.
Student Lenders Stifled by Auction-Rate Bond Failures (Update1)
Bloomberg – Apr 4, 2008
Cooke April 4 (Bloomberg) — The collapse of the $330 billionauction-rate securities market has brought debt sales by U. public student-loan agencies to a halt. No municipal bonds backed by.
Get a steal of a deal at real estate auctions
MSNBC – Apr 4, 2008
That?s 223,651 homes that received foreclosure filings last month. Nevada, California and Florida have the highest foreclosure filing rates in the nation. In the past year, 1,000 Florida homes have been auctioned. Five hundred homes will be auctioned off in Florida next week in one of the largest auctions in history, which will last for six days.
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Ambac to address auction-rate securities, variable debt
MarketWatch – Apr 4, 2008
said late Friday it put together a team to address customer concerns about the auction-rate securities and variable-rate debt markets. Many of Ambac’s clients are suffering from penalty interest rates that have increased the financing costs of even highly rated borrowers, said Michael Callen, Ambac chairman and CEO, in a statement. Potential solutions by the team may include adding temporary or permanent liquidity enhancements, facilitating repurchases by the issuers of their wrapped securities, and helping issuers switch to intermediate term interest rates, Ambac said.
Related: Debt relief act has its limits
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