US SWAPS-Spreads swell on solid data, mortgage hedging
Reuters – The recent safe-haven rally in Treasuries made home loans less valuable because lower yields, benchmarks for most U.S. mortgage rates, lead to faster mortgage prepayments. As a result, mortgage companies would not have collected all the interest …
Offer: Lousy credit? Buy somebody else’s
Los Angeles Times – You are here: LAT Home > Business News … Are there people out there who are going to say that it’s mortgage fraud?” he said … that have agreed to add TradeLine customers’ names to the records of loans …
MGIC to limit coverage of risky loans
CNBC – The insurer also is putting in some geographic restrictions in places like California and Florida — two areas hard-hit by the mortgage crisis. MGIC will insure loans up to 95 percent of a home’s value, meaning they won’t insure homes with no equity …
Calderon Boosts Mexico’s Mortgage-Backed Bond Market (Update2)
Bloomberg – Mexico’s mortgage bond market has grown 87 percent this year to $4.9 billion, accounting for about 6 percent of Mexico’s $81 billion of outstanding home loans. The U.S. mortgage market, by comparison, totals $10 trillion. Mexico’s market …
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Lending oversight overdue for reform
Baltimore Sun – The cowboys were the mortgage brokers, who handle most Maryland home loans and who by definition have a fleeting relationship with the borrower. Brokers had huge incentives to issue loans people couldn’t afford, bury bombs in the fine print and pretty …
For Bush, a Political Calculus in Forging Ahead on Mortgage Aid
Washington Post – … to homeowners facing foreclosure involves a careful political calculation — that the American dream of owning a home is … The number of foreclosures in the third quarter hit a record, and the percentage of mortgage loans behind on payments reached the …
Mortgage pinch hasn’t slowed consumer credit use
Houston Chronicle – That slowdown has reflected tighter bank lending conditions as a serious slump in housing has sent home prices falling and increased the level of mortgage defaults. For September, auto loans actually shrank at an annual rate of 1.3 percent following a …
Mortgage aid plan puts limit on relief
Baltimore Sun – Have less than 3 percent equity in the home ? Be unlikely to qualify for refinancing … The Mortgage Bankers Association said yesterday that the share of loans that lenders were trying to foreclose on reached a record high this summer: about 1 …
Bush’s Bad Mortgage Medicine
Forbes – Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists Opinions Video Blogs E-mail Newsletters … According to analysis by Barclays Capital, the “freezer-teaser” plan applies to just 240,000 subprime loans. The Mortgage Bankers …
