Ontario mayors, auto dealers call for federal help (CTV.ca)
A group of Ontario mayors as well as the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association added their names to a growing list of those pressuring Ottawa to move quickly to help the auto industry or risk a nationwide crisis.

FHA-Backed Loans: The New Subprime (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
As if they haven't done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers -- many of them the very sorts of firms that helped create the current financial crisis -- are going strong. Their new strategy: taking advantage of a long-standing federal program designed to encourage homeownership by insuring mortgages for buyers of modest means.

MetLife Announces Two Tactical Exchange-Traded Fund Asset Allocation Portfolios Managed by State Street Global Advisors (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK & BOSTON----MetLife, a leading provider of insurance and financial services, announces that State Street Global Advisors the investment management arm of State Street Corporation and the largest institutional fund manager in the world¹, will subadvise two tactical asset allocation portfolios investing primarily in exchange-traded funds .*

MetLife to Hold Annual Investor Day (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----MetLife, Inc. will hold its annual investor conference on Monday, December 8, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m. . Presenters will include members of MetLife’s senior management team.

DA explains (Monroe County Advocate & Democrat)
Watauga County District Attorney Jerry Wilson sat down with the Watauga Democrat to offer a better understanding of the judgments and dismissals handed down in district court.