Your only equity line of credit rates news source! Click on each item to read full story.   TD Canada Trust increases home equity line of credit and variable interest rate mortgage rates (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) read story TD Canada Trust has increased its home equity line of credit and variable interest rate mortgage rates, effective October 7, 2008. While TD Canada Trust has endeavored to not pass on the increases in rates to its customers, this change reflects steadily increasing costs of funds in the current economic environment.   Credit cards likely to change (WRBL Columbus) read story Credit-card holders, you're in for a rough ride. As the financial crisis deepens, some experts say card issuers will be even quicker to raise interest rates, drop people's spending limits and tighten up credit.   Credit cards likely to change (NBC 13 Birmingham) read story Credit-card holders, you’re in for a rough ride.    Fitch: First Industrial's 2008 FFO Guidance Change Raises Concerns but Doesn't Affect 'BBB' IDR (Centre Daily Times) read story The recent announcement by First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:FR) that the company has revised its 2008 Funds From Operations (FFO) guidance from $4.70-$5.00 per share to $3.45-$3.75 per share raises concerns but does not lead Fitch to change its credit ratings or Stable Outlook for First Industrial at this time. Fitch currently rates First Industrial and its operating partnership, First ...   Credit crunch is felt in Louisville area (Louisville Courier-Journal) read story This region has avoided the more severe housing slumps that hit other states, and local bankers stress that loans are still widely available here for borrowers with good credit and a stable source of income.   Oregon companies find credit's still available (The Oregonian) read story Most Oregon businesses so far have dodged a direct hit from the credit crisis stemming from the mortgage and lending meltdown that is gyrating Wall Street. And, though local bank lending has slowed, a survey last week of large and...   Viva Deflation! (GoldSeek.com) read story Free source for precious metals information and financial truth. Offering a range of information such as latest news from around the world, commentary, market updates, stock reports, coin information, quotes, forums plus much more!   Investors cheered by $700bn bailout deal and prospect of global rate cuts (Times Online) read story Optimism swept markets last night that a line might soon be drawn under the worst of the global credit crisis after US lawmakers approved the Bush Administration’s $700 billion (£395 billion) bailout plan for American banks and hopes of cuts in interest rates in leading economies rose sharply.   Irish plan may be only real EU money market salve (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) read story Ireland's effective underwriting of its entire banking system for two years has set a super-high bar for European Union-wide crisis coordination but it may now be the base line needed to restart frozen interbank money markets.   Credit freeze chills Chicago (Crain's Chicago Business) read story The choking credit market is causing pain in just about every nook of Chicago's economy, squeezing businesses and consumers alike. From manufacturers to car dealers to big publicly traded firms, companies that rely on borrowed money to buy inventory, expand facilities and strike deals are having ...