Car loan crunch squeezes customers and dealersSunday, October 12, 2008 @ 2:47AMIf your credit is less than perfect, good luck getting a car loan in South Florida. Like mortgages and business loans, car loans and leases have shriveled up as the paralyzed credit market awaits the effects of a $700 billion bailout. Both customers and carmakers are being squeezed, with crippled giants GM and Chrysler discussing a merger.
Car loan crunch squeezes customers and dealersSunday, October 12, 2008 @ 2:47AMIf your credit is less than perfect, good luck getting a car loan in South Florida. Like mortgages and business loans, car loans and leases have shriveled up as the paralyzed credit market awaits the effects of a $700 billion bailout. Both customers and carmakers are being squeezed, with crippled giants GM and Chrysler discussing a merger.
Cops bust fraudSaturday, October 11, 2008 @ 5:13AMWEST BRADFORD — Two insurance company owners and a car dealer were arrested by state police Friday for their alleged involvement in life insurance fraud...
Business news in briefSaturday, October 11, 2008 @ 2:50AMIn the face of declining profits and worries that life insurers are going to have to raise capital to make up for investment losses, Lincoln National Corp.
After punishing week of stock market losses, U.S. will buy into struggling financial firmsSaturday, October 11, 2008 @ 12:15AMThe government will buy into a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday night after a another day of international stock losses.
Wife, Husband Accused Of Insurance FraudFriday, October 10, 2008 @ 4:46PMA Sacramento woman and her husband have been arrested on suspicion of insurance fraud, the state says.
Candidates make cases at forumFriday, October 10, 2008 @ 4:00PMSpeakers Thursday night in a variety of local political races predicted the national economic downturn that resulted in a $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan eventually would hit Cowley County, and that local and state governmental entities would be in a "belt-tightening" mode.
Alleged burglar leads police on car pursuitThursday, October 9, 2008 @ 12:55AMLAKE IN THE HILLS – A 23-year-old man and 16-year-old boy are in police custody after trying to steal more than $20,000 worth of cell phones from a Randall Road business, police said.