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What the pricing of the upcoming Lincoln hybrid may mean, why you may want to lose weight and other consumer-focused items from Friday’s Times. ...

Credit card issuers have stopped many of the “deceptive” or “unfair” practices outlawed by the Credit Card Act, but they are still engaging in others, according to a report. ...

Only 340,000 homeowners have had their mortgages permanently adjusted under the program, a small fraction of those needing assistance. ...

The changes could reduce the amounts that investors pay for sales and marketing activities of brokers. ...

The agency will look into refusals by some lenders to make home loans to people who were pregnant or on short-term disability. ...

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Shoppers live on six items or fewer, new proposed limits on mutual fund sales fees and other consumer-focused items from Thursday’s Times. ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will investigate the practices of certain lenders to make sure borrowers haven’t been illegally denied a mortgage because of a pregnancy or short-term disability. ...