May 16, 2008

Student-Loan Market Shows Small Signs of Revival

By Paul Basken

Washington

With only about two weeks until the start of the student-lending season, the long-awaited easing of the credit crunch may finally be arriving.

Nelnet, one of the nation's largest student-loan companies, completed on Thursday a sale of more than $1.3-billion in bonds backed by student loans.

The sale came one week after JPMorgan Chase & Company reported an improvement in market pricing of student-loan debt and two weeks after the Rhode Island Student Loan

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