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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 10:59pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 12:23pm CDT
Missouri's student loan authority is delaying part of a payment toward the state's college construction projects as it continues to grapple with financial losses and the tight credit market.
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 4:35am CDT
Dear College Money Guru, My daughter and son-in-law are considering taking out a home equity loan to pay off his student loans. They think the interest rate will be lower. Is this a good idea, or should they try to work with the student loan people to consolidate as best they can?
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Posted: March 31st, 2008, 3:00am CDT
A home equity loan typically offers better terms than a student loan, says the College Money Guru.
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Posted: March 29th, 2008, 11:56am CDT
QDo you have any tips on finding low-interest student loan consolidation? My wife graduated from grad school last August and student loan payments are headed this way, so we want to plan ahead.
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 11:14pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:43am CDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Financial losses have led Missouri’s student loan authority to consider whether it should delay a scheduled payment toward the state’s college construction program.
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:46am CDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Financial losses have led Missouri’s student loan authority to consider whether it should delay a scheduled payment toward the state’s college construction program.
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Posted: March 27th, 2008, 7:34am CDT
The First Marblehead Corporation today released the following statement regarding recent actions taken by Moody's Investors Service with regard to the ratings of certain classes of notes issued by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts and separately the ratings actions taken on The Education Resources Institute, Inc..
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 11:08pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 10:18pm CDT
Like dominos, more private lenders either are ending or scaling back their student loan businesses. On the heels of an ongoing student loan credit crunch, three more student lenders - HSBC Bank USA, M&T Bank Corporation and the TCF Financial Corporation - announced their withdrawal from the government's subsidized private loan program, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 7:49pm CDT
One of downtown Rochester's largest employers let 300 of its workers know Wednesday they'll be let go. JPMorgan Chase cited a downturn in national home equity lending for its need to consolidate that branch of its business.
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 6:11pm CDT
Posted: 7:02 PM- Zions Bank is joining other big banks in getting out of the federal program to make government-guaranteed student loans, the consequence of subsidy cuts that have made lending to students unprofitable.
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:51pm CDT
Financial losses have led Missouri's student loan authority to consider whether it should delay a scheduled payment toward the state's college construction program.
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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:32am CDT
(ARA) - Everywhere you look you see news about the "credit crunch" and the mortgage foreclosure crisis and, if you're like most Americans, you're feeling the pinch too.
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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 10:27pm CDT
Schools such as Augustana College, in Rock Island, Ill., are taking another look at the federal government’s direct student-loan program. For years, the small liberal-arts school relied on private lenders to make federal loans to its 2,500 students.
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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 10:23pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 4:16pm CDT
A number of student lenders are backing out of the federal student-loan program amid the credit crunch and government subsidy cuts. Video
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Posted: March 25th, 2008, 4:08am CDT
A number of student lenders are backing out of the federal student-loan program amid the credit crunch and government subsidy cuts.
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Posted: March 24th, 2008, 7:25pm CDT
A number of student lenders are backing out of the federal student-loan program amid the credit crunch and government subsidy cuts.
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Posted: March 24th, 2008, 3:47pm CDT
(ARA) - Everywhere you look you see news about the "credit crunch" and the mortgage foreclosure crisis and, if you're like most Americans, you're feeling the pinch too.
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Posted: March 24th, 2008, 7:04am CDT
Once you leave school, you can consolidate all of your federal student loans into one big debt.
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Posted: March 24th, 2008, 3:44am CDT
A Buffalo-based student loan consolidation firm has shut its doors, the third Western New York lender to leave the field in recent months after new federal legislation made the business less profitable by cutting financial aid to the lenders.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 10:54pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 11:44am CDT
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. Politicians are not talking enough about education, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said last week at Southeast Missouri State University.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2008, 12:15am CDT
First Data Corp. is paying millions of dollars more in interest, searching for a new chief financial officer and studying more job cuts as the economy slows.
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Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 10:58pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 11:10pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 2:46pm CDT
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Posted: March 21st, 2008, 9:10am CDT
Gerri Willis answers reader mail:
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Posted: March 20th, 2008, 11:15pm CDT
With increasing tuition costs, student loans and credit cards, some college and university students are finding themselves deep in debt.
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Posted: March 20th, 2008, 2:18pm CDT
College students may need an alternative to alternative education loans next school year.
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Posted: March 20th, 2008, 6:10am CDT
As part of his administration's ongoing education initiative, President Bush has proposed a $300 million grant program intended to increase K-12 education funding and enable more low-income parents to send their children to private or faith-based schools.
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Posted: March 20th, 2008, 1:15am CDT
(ARA) - Everywhere you look you see news about the "credit crunch" and the mortgage foreclosure crisis and, if you're like most Americans, you're feeling the pinch too.
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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 8:43pm CDT
College students may need an alternative to alternative education loans next school year. Once easy to get, the availability of private or alternative education loans may be hindered by more stringent regulations on lending, prompted by the unstable economy.
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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 3:04pm CDT
Loan consolidation no longer makes sense for most people. Here are the alternatives.
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Posted: March 16th, 2008, 2:06pm CDT
During the present crisis in Burma, pro-democracy activists and others have made appeals to the United Nations, the United States, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to intervene.
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Posted: March 16th, 2008, 11:11am CDT
Bear Stearns , the stricken US investment bank, was this weekend fighting against the clock to work out a deal to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase , amid growing concerns that failure to clinch an agreement by Monday morning could put other banks under severe strain.
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Posted: March 14th, 2008, 9:28am CDT
2008-03-14 15:41:21 Dresdner Bank confirms it will split into two separate banks
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Posted: March 7th, 2008, 9:50am CST
Missouri's student loan agency is reporting an operating loss of $12.4 million so far this fiscal year, its first financial loss in its 27-year history.