Lenders weigh plan to freeze rates on ARM loans 

Lenders and loan servicers who have signed onto the Bush administration's HOPE NOW initiative to improve communications with troubled borrowers may be prepared to take a more radical step -- freezing the interest rates on some subprime loans scheduled to reset.

When launched in October, the HOPE NOW initiative was a partnership between the Treasury Department, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 11 loan servicers that handle 60 percent of U.S.

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