Falling behind in your mortgage? Act fast - 2004-03-24
When you drop behind on your mortgage payments, your options dwindle as time goes on.

If you confront the problem quickly, you can give yourself time to keep the house or at least sell it for a fair price. Let the situation drag out, and you'll get stuck in foreclosure.

Sounds like common-sense advice. But even sensible people deny reality in a financial crisis caused by unemployment or towering medical bills or some other calamity.
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U.S. mortgage-backed bonds firmer, spreads narrow - 2004-03-24
U.S. mortgage-backed securities prices were unchanged to slightly higher on Wednesday while spreads were unchanged to a bit narrower
amid slack mortgage bank sales and better buying.

Activity was subdued during the trading session because investors, faced with more uncertainty, briefly helped yank U.S. Treasury yields lower.
Read the full story at Forbes