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Lennar Corp, the No.2 U.S. homebuilder by sales, reported a 33 percent rise in quarterly profit as it sold more homes at higher prices, and said orders rose 17.6 percent. Net income attributable to Lennar …

Of the subprime vehicle loans bundled into securities, 73 percent now exceed five years, up from 64 percent during the first three months of 2014, according to data from Citigroup Inc. Loans as long as seven years are increasingly being put into more bonds as auto-finance companies and Wall Street banks sell the securities at the fastest pace since 2007. While the securities are attracting plenty of buyers with high loss buffers and AAA ratings, some investors are beginning to question the wisdom of lending at terms that have never before extended beyond five years.

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* Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has attacked the stance of “certain” creditors as “strange” because they rejected proposals presented by Athens to bridge a budget gap, a government official said without referring to specific proposals or which of the three institutions Tsipras was blaming for the deadlock. * Tsipras will meet the heads of the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission in Brussels before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers at 1300 p.m. ET.

Support for the secessionist cause still remains strong in … the Kremlin, the Fiscal Times reports.

Powerful storms that plowed through eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey downed trees and power lines, leaving nearly 400,000 without electricity.

Google Inc. hasn’t responded, after an initial 10-week deadline, to European Union charges that the U.S.

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U.S. stocks head for their first loss in three days, with futures tilting lower ahead of the final revision to U.S.

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