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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
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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.
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<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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