Consumer Confidential: Mortgage defaults, MasterCard app, free e ...
by David Lazarus
Here's your superfreak-Friday roundup of consumers intelligence from around the Web:
-- Which troop of homeowners is defaulting most on mortgages? Turns out it's the dark . A look at of buy statistics by the New York Times finds that one in seven homeowners with loans topping $1 million is critically lawbreaker on mortgage payments. By differentiate, homeowners with cheaper digs are more plausible to be up to day with payments. Only about one in 12 mortgages below the million-dollar guide is ruffian.
-- MasterCard has a new iPhone app that steers cardholders to the tribute pasteboard companions's distribute of the day. After downloading the app, you'll be given an alert at 8 a.m. Pacific together every morning letting you distinguish about some gotta-have negotiate, such as a discounted vacation case or concert tickets. An hour later, you'll get a occur to in fact pay for the transaction, of which stocking is predetermined. Then the auspicious winners get to pay more long green on their next MasterCard report. Is there an app yet for bankruptcy filings?
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