Auto Loan Strategies

Money: 9 ways to tough out tough times (Money via Yahoo! Finance)
9 Oct 2008
It's hard to find any good news about your money these days. The stock market is tumbling. Banks are failing. Home values are cratering. And you're watching your retirement disappear.

Ten-Year Swap Spread Collapses After Fed Rate Cut (Update2) (Bloomberg)
8 Oct 2008
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A decline in interest-rate swap spreads may be a sign that a coordinated effort by the world's central banks to lower borrowing costs will bolster financial markets.

Ten-Year Swap Spread Collapses After Fed Rate Cut (Update1) (Bloomberg)
8 Oct 2008
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A decline in the premium charged to exchange floating for fixed-rate payments to below the level when credit markets began to seize last year may be a sign that interest-rate cut...

Ten-Year U.S. Swap Spreads Collapse After Coordinated Rate Cuts (Bloomberg)
8 Oct 2008
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The spread between the rate on 10- year interest-rate swaps and Treasury yields collapsed to the least since before credit markets began to seize last year after coordinated cent...

Auto loan delinquencies rise (Business Journal of Tampa Bay)
6 Oct 2008
It’s not just home loans that are going into default: Auto loan delinquencies also are on the rise.

US Auto Loan Delinquencies On The Rise; $25 Billion Past-Due Study (Nasdaq)
6 Oct 2008
DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- Auto loan delinquencies are on the rise as cash-strapped Americans increasingly struggle to repay car and truck loans, according to a study out Monday, the latest sign that the n...

Selling Fear (Kitco.com)
2 Oct 2008
The U.S. Congress (Senate) approves bailout using a fear and greed set-up. It appears Congress is well on its way to completion of the bailout bill, which will not bailout anything but in fact creates...

Credit squeeze hits Twin Cities car lots (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
1 Oct 2008
Automakers are seeing sales slump as dealers find it increasingly difficult to get financing for potential customers - even those who have good credit.

Press Briefing by Tony Fratto - 09/30/2008 (White House)
30 Sep 2008
MR. FRATTO: Good morning, everyone. Just a couple things to note. The President we haven't given you a schedule for what the President will be doing on the next two days. I say at least for tomorrow, ...

Credit crunch affecting Chicagoans (ABC 7 Chicago)
29 Sep 2008
Investors are already experiencing the most obvious fallout from the rejected financial rescue plan.