table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNG1SWS3I8_wlot9xZ60ImBATsz_gAamp;url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-mortgage-debt-falls-three-percent-since-april-2011-according-to-creditkarmacom-2012-05-16bConsumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to b/b/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fMarketWatch (press release)/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1Another factor is that many of the underwater bhomes/b have been foreclosed and the bbad/b debt written off of the bcredit/b reports.quot; -- Consumers in 36 states have more auto bloan/b debt than a year ago. Montana (7%), New Mexico (6%), Wisconsin (6%), b/b/fontbr /font size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNHmr-DhnDEtM_pzWJE_ILw9BIToJgamp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2012/05/16/credit-karma-card-mortgage-debt-down.htmlbCredit/b Karma: Card and mortgage debt down, but so are scores/afont size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrBizjournals.com/nobr/font/fontbr /font size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNFzIgwRlE2BlYMZR5mLFlt6xMzI1Aamp;url=http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2012/05/16/california-mortgage-consumer-debt-drops.htmlCalifornia mortgage, consumer debt drops/afont size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrLos Angeles Business/nobr/font/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1amp;ned=usamp;ncl=d-D7ZQmtQyQiDpMPB_20imJbymM7Mnobrball 13 news articlesnbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
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