Mortgage 'U-turn' at Nationwide
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The Nationwide building society has stopped offering the same mortgage deals to new and current borrowers
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Countrywide Financial Corp  posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it expects to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and has weathered the worst of the housing downturn.
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.
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House prices fell by 1.1 per cent last month, their worst performance in four years, Halifax, Britain&#39;s biggest mortgage lender, has said.
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The British government faced questions Monday over its economic competence after nationalising Northern Rock, the beleaguered mortgage lender that fell victim to the global credit crunch six months ago.
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A swathe of figures have provided further evidence of a slowdown in the UK property market. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), British Bankers Association (BBA) and Building Societies Association (BSA) all said mortgage lending was slowing.
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Home builders and financial issues, the biggest casualties of the subprime lending meltdown, were hit again by tax-motivated selling in recent weeks but could rebound a bit early in the new year, money managers said on Monday.
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Business & money: Lenders move swiftly to cut home loan rates after the Bank of England cut the price of borrowing
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Thursday it has lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that has reduced loan demand and will lead to widespread layoffs.
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said yesterday it will no longer buy those high-risk home mortgages that it deems to be the most vulnerable to foreclosure. The move came amid a deteriorating market for subprime loans affected by slumping home prices and rising interest rates
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UNITED KINGDOM - The process of property market weakening has been recently observed due to declining mortgage lending for the last two months in a row in the UK.
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Shares of US mortgage lender New Century are suspended amid fears it may be close to bankruptcy.
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YESTERDAY Close $60.07 Change -$3.18 52-WEEK High $71.92 Low $54.97 Freddie Mac, the nation's number two buyer and backer of home mortgages, set aside more than $300 million in the second quarter to account for bad loans, contributing to a 45 percent drop in profit.
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Countrywide Financial, the nationâs largest mortgage lender, said yesterday that it had lined up $12 billion of financing to help weather a housing slowdown that it expects to lead to widespread layoffs.
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Countrywide Financial Corp  posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its shares soared after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it expected to be profitable this quarter and in 2008, and had weathered the worst of the nationwide housing downturn.
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This just in from London: the U.S. subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Monday said it has minimal exposure to nonprime mortgages, but may still experience fluctuating earnings in the near term due to turmoil in the U.S. subprime market.