Fannie Mae hiked mortgage lending forecast again - 2004-03-11
Weeks after boosting its forecast for mortgage lending, U.S. housing agency Fannie Mae said on Thursday it has significantly raised its 2004 estimate again because rates in that time slumped to levels that will jack up refinancings, boosting the creation of new home loans.

The new outlook calls for loan applications processed by lenders to total $2.43 trillion, up from a previous forecast of $1.9 trillion, but still down from last year's boom year.
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MBA Gives Burton C. Wood Legislative Service Award to Former MBA Chairman John Courson - 2004-03-11
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) today handed out its annual Burton C. Wood Legislative Service Award to former 2003 MBA Chairman John Courson at its 2004 National Policy Conference on Capitol Hill.

Courson is currently president and chief executive officer of Central Pacific Mortgage Company in Folsom, California. He was the 2003 chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association and remains on MBA's board of directors in 2004.
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