USA TODAY

Activists sue DOE for secret Fisker loan documents
USA TODAY
By James R. Healey, USA TODAY The activist group Judicial Watch says it has sued the Department of Energy to obtain records detailing the DOE's $529 million loan promise to Fisker Automotive, maker of luxury electrified vehicles.
Fisker Automotive's Delaware factory stops working as U.S. Blocks LoanNorthern Voices Online
Fisker Loan Woes: Bump In The Road, Or A Big Pothole?Green Car Reports
Global Warming Alarmism Points To Bad Karma For Your Tax DollarsForbes
BusinessWeek -CNET (blog) -MarketWatch (press release)
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Bloomberg

Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake
All Things Digital
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.
Alibaba close to loan to buy Yahoo stake: WSJMarketWatch
Alibaba $3 Billion Loan Terms Said to Be Due This WeekBusinessWeek
Alibaba raising $3B to buy back Yahoo stakeZDNet Asia

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Wall Street Journal

Greek Finance Minister Heads to Brussels; Loan Talks Stall
Wall Street Journal
Speaking after a five-hour meeting with a delegation of European and International Monetary Fund officials, a visibly tired Evangelos Venizelos signaled that he expected euro-zone finance ministers to bridge differences over the loan program at a ...
DJ Greek Finance Minister To Attend Euro Meeting; Issues Remain In Loan TalksMiddle East North Africa Financial Network
Greece sets new round of loan talksThe Voice of Russia
Greek unions call two-day strike, protestsAtlanta Journal Constitution
Kathimerini
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Mother Nature Network (blog)

Student Loan Debt Could Be Next Bubble
NBC Bay Area
By Stephanie Elam and Samantha Tata The student loan debt crisis is being compared to the mortgage crisis by an association representing bankruptcy lawyers. Lots of families are in over their heads, and cannot pay back what they owe.
Student Debt: The Next Financial Crisis?Forbes
Student debt could be 'next bomb for the U.S. economy'Chicago Sun-Times
Are Student Loans the Next Debt Bomb?U.S. News & World Report
LoanSafe -Mother Nature Network (blog)
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Bloomberg

Fannie Canceled Loan Write-Down Program In 2010 - Former Official
Wall Street Journal
By Alan Zibel WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Fannie Mae (FNMA) canceled the launch of a pilot program to cut loan balances for troubled homeowners in 2010 when the proposal met resistance from senior executives, a former employee has told Congressional ...
Ex-Fannie Mae Employee: Executives 'Philosophically Opposed' To Loan ForgivenessHuffington Post
Coakley Urges Fannie, Freddie To Reduce Loan DebtBanker & Tradesman
Obama's cash for condosToronto Sun
Reuters -Habitat magazine
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Bloomberg

Falcones lulu loan
New York Post
Billionaire Phil Falcone's hedge fund, which tumbled by almost half last year because of a troubled wireless venture, is paying a 15 percent interest rate for a $190 million loan, almost triple what the riskiest corporate borrowers pay, said two people ...
Harbinger Takes $190 Million LoanFINalternatives
Harbinger borrows $190 mln at 15 pct interest-reportReuters

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Des Moines school board OKs loan for upgrades
DesMoinesRegister.com
Des Moines schools will move forward with the second phase of their five-year building improvement plan after school board members signed off on a $71 million loan to fund more than a dozen projects. District officials will borrow against the estimated ...

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KBC Sees Ireland Loan Provisions Of EUR500M-EUR600M
Wall Street Journal
BT) expects to have provisions on loans of as much as EUR600 million in Ireland this year, the company said Thursday. "Loan loss provisions in Ireland are estimated at roughly EUR200 million for the first quarter of 2012 and EUR500 million [to] EUR600 ...

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DNB Quarterly Profit Falls 24% as Loan Losses, Costs Increase
Bloomberg
DNB ASA (DNB), the Nordic region's second- largest bank, reported a 24 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit after loan losses and costs swelled. Net income fell to 4.09 billion kroner ($713 million) from 5.35 billion kroner a year earlier, ...

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Loan programs
Reading Eagle
Kevin Lusch, a US Department of Agriculture farm loan officer in Berks County, recommends that anyone interested in pursuing a loan first develop a plan. "There's not much I can do until they know what they want to do themselves and until they have a ...

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