Today's Business (Myrtle Beach Online) Washington | Rates on 30-year

Today's Business (Myrtle Beach Online)
Washington | Rates on 30-year mortgages, after declining for three weeks, were unchanged this week, while other types of mortgages dipped lower on expectations of slower economic growth in coming months.

Built on the boom: No down payment? No sweat (The Sacramento Bee)
Until recently Michelle Hupton figured you had to have money in the bank to buy a house.

Home sizes fall short, some area buyers say (The Sacramento Bee)
Home homeowners allege JTS Communities, one of Sacramento's largest locally based builders, sold them houses that are as much as 168 square feet smaller than sales brochures indicated.

Trader Classified Media-First Half 2005 Results (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS-- - Trader Classified Media N.V. -

Flow International Announces Preliminary Fiscal 2006 First Quarter Results (The Auto Channel)
KENT, Wash., Sept. 15 -- Flow International Corporation , the world's leading supplier of ultrahigh-pressure waterjet products, today reported preliminary results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter ended July 31, 2005. On a consolidated basis, FLOW reported quarterly sales of $49.7 million and operating income of $2.4 million, or 4.9% of sales, and net income of $708,000 or $0.02 basic and diluted

Fitch Announces 'Morning Credit Brief' Seminars in Chicago, 10/19, & New York, 10/21 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fitch Ratings will host credit seminars in Chicago and New York this October to discuss several key trends and issues affecting global credit markets. Topics include default/recovery analysis, a discussion and outlook for the U.S. auto industry, trends in the collateralized debt obligation sector, and the effect hedge funds are having on global credit markets.

Business briefcase (The Des Moines Register)
Oil worries and a raft of economic uncertainties plagued Wall Street on Thursday, sending stocks lower as investors collected profits after the strong gains of the previous two sessions.