Of course, there was more in the financial crisis news this week than the number 6 but that's the number that kept popping up in stories I read today. Here are the 6s....
Today's unemployment rate is 6.1% and Bill Gates says that might climb to 9%.
Intel woke up this morning with some recovery to its 6% loss the day before.
Fannie Mae mortgage securities' yields increased to 6.09%.
In a week's time, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages' average rate rose from 6.06% to 6.75%.
Municipal bond yields rose to 6.74%.
Worldwide, bank losses top $600 billion. An IMF analysis predicts more ahead, in the $800 billion range.
In the past year, U.S. household net worth dropped $6 trillion. About 1/6 of that drop occurred in the past month.
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