Just 29, 355 house purchase loans were granted - 18 percent fewer than the same month last year.

银行只批准了29355份买房贷款申请，比去年同期减少了18%。

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The number of sales contracts plunged about 30% in May, while mortgage applications for purchase loans also fell by about 30%.

五月，房屋销售合同猛增30%，然而按揭申请同样下跌了30%。

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Car buyers can no longer get 100% finance on new or used vehicles. They now need big down payments now, says Tamas Devenyi, whose company offers car-purchase loans.

在购车贷款公司工作的Tamas Devenyi说，购买新车或二手车不再能享受100%的贷款，现在他们需要支付大笔的首付款。

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Geithner said government and private investors will work together to purchase bad loans from banks, so-called "toxic assets", so the banks can resume lending and get the economy going again.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Mr.Fillon expressed confidence in U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's newest initiative to help stabilize the banking system by providing guarantees and low-interest loans to investors willing to purchase toxic assets from banks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

The government will use as much as $100 billion from an existing fund set up to rescue the ailing financial sector to provide guarantees and low interest loans to those willing to purchase these assets.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

This group accounted for four in 10 of all house purchase loans in October.

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Founded in 1973 as a government-sponsored enterprise, Sallie Mae originally borrowed money at near-government rates to purchase loans guaranteed by the government, but in the 1990s Congress took away SLM's funding edge.

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Geithner's PPIP was originally envisioned with two components--one to purchase entire loans and one to purchase securities.

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