by Calculated Risk on 10/08/2010 11:36:00 PM

From Dina ElBoghdady at the WaPo: Buyers anxiously await foreclosure deals to go through

From David Streitfeld and Nelson Schwartz at the NY Times: Largest U.S. Bank Halts Foreclosures in All States

Note: the media is in a frenzy about this, but I've hardly mentioned it other than linking to a few articles and posting Tom Lawler's piece about Who will, and who should "pay"?.

Best to all.

Employment posts today (with many graphs):

September Employment Report: 18K Jobs Lost ex-Census, 9.6% Unemployment Rate

Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers, Unemployed over 26 Weeks

Unemployment by Level of Education and Employment Diffusion Indexes

Impact of estimated Benchmark Revision on Job Losses