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FRANKFURT German engineering conglomerate Siemens will have to take additional gross writedowns of more than 250 million euros ($ 321.13 million) on the solar business that it is exiting, a German paper reported. The additional amount is made up of writedowns on the value of company units, operational losses and writedowns on solar projects that have already been started, Financial Times Deutschland reported in a story to be published on Monday, citing company sources. In total, the company is booking losses of 800 million euros on its solar business, which it started in 2009, the paper added. Siemens announced last [...]

The top housing regulator rebuffed the offer of taxpayer funds to reduce mortgages held by struggling homeowners on Tuesday, a blow to the Obama administration which is keen to show voters it can help fix the housing market. Calling it a challenging decision, the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said using funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program would not make a meaningful improvement in reducing foreclosures in a cost-effective way for taxpayers. “The anticipated benefits do not outweigh the costs and risks,” the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s head Edward DeMarco told reporters. The administration has been pressuring [...]

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