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- <text id=89TT0545>
- <title>
- Feb. 27, 1989: Business Notes:Savings And Loans
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 27, 1989 The Ayatullah Orders A Hit
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 56
- Business Notes
- SAVINGS AND LOANS
- Offers They Can't Afford
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- <p> Just a week after President Bush unveiled his plan to bail
- out hundreds of insolvent savings and loans, some of them took a
- turn for the perverse by getting into a costly new interest-rate
- war. Houston's Commonwealth Savings cranked up the rates it pays
- on six-month "jumbo" certificates of deposit (typical size:
- $100,000) from 9.6% to a hefty 10.75%. In California, Pasadena's
- BancPlus Savings followed suit with a 10.5% six-month rate. One
- reason for the feverish run-up was the need for the thrifts to
- compensate depositors for the perceived risk of putting money
- in those S & Ls, despite the Government's promise to insure all
- accounts up to $100,000.
- </p>
- <p> By widening the losses at insolvent S & Ls, the rate
- increases may drive up the cost of the federal rescue, which
- under Bush's plan could cost $200 billion during the next three
- decades. By week's end, though, the ailing S & Ls began to show
- some restraint. Rates on six-month CDs fell to 9.5% at
- Commonwealth and 10.1% at BancPlus.
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- </body></article>
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