As you know, before the collapse of the mortgage-backed bond market in 2007, banks routinely offered mortgages worth more than 90% of the value of a house - and even 100% mortgages were relatively common.

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The muni bond insurance market has decreased 98% since 2007 and the old AAA guaranteed muni bond has become a virtually extinct species.

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But there's no best actor nomination for Daniel Craig as Bond, which is what he got in 2007 when Casino Royale picked up nine nominations.

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Goldman also said it has received subpoenas from unspecified regulators seeking information on the firm's mortgage business and products such as Abacus 2007-AC1, a mortgage-bond deal.

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Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.

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"It could be hard to bond off the hotel that's going to be built in 2007, " he said.

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New manager Clint Hurdle, who led the Colorado Rockies to the World Series in 2007, has emphasized the importance of re-establishing the bond between the city and its fans after taking over a team that was 57-105 in 2010.

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In 2007 HSBC in Panama was told that Salvatore Frieri Gallo was doing illegal bond trading and money laundering in Venezuela and that HSBC in Switzerland had given Frieri ECG bank statement.

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Mortgage insurer PMI Group said late Wednesday it will delay reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 financial results because of delays in receiving financial results from FGIC, a troubled bond insurer that it partly owns.

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Mortgage insurer PMI Group (nyse: PMI - news - people ) said late Wednesday it will delay reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 financial results because of delays in receiving financial results from FGIC, a troubled bond insurer that it partly owns.

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Earlier this month, stocks had rallied as the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve announced bond-buying programs meant to jolt economic growth, with the Dow industrials hitting their highest level since December 2007.

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