News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Mortgages
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For investors who watched the technology bubble burst, the problems in the mortgage securities market have a familiar ring.
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Shares of subprime lender tumble after margin calls.
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By Malcolm Moore, Economics Correspondent (Filed: 26/11/2004). Increasing numbers of homeowners are renegotiating their mortgages to take advantage of the slowing property market, the British Bankers Association said yesterday.
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Washington's real estate industry, already pinched by a slowdown in residential construction, is bracing for further retrenchment after last week's meltdown in the mortgage market.
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Construction of new homes fell in May as the nationâs home builders were battered by the crisis in subprime lending and rising mortgage rates.
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Troubles buffeting the U.S. mortgage market could get worse as resurgent crude oil prices squeeze the finances of already hard-pressed borrowers, analysts say, and that could spell more trouble for Wall Street.
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Disappointing data come as credit crisis looms.
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While it might be tempting to go bargain hunting in the mortgage industry, investment advisers donât think that prices yet fully reflect the troubles the industry is likely to see in the coming months.
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At a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday, legislators and consumer advocates prodded federal banking regulators to move more quickly to put restrictions on non-traditional mortgage lending, because, they said, the new kinds of mortgages may place borrowers and lenders at financial risk.
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The debacle in mortgage lending that spurred wild daily swings in the markets has tripped up many hedge funds.
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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Business & money: Wall Street threatened by crumbling housing market.
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Lehman Brothers sees a tough future for the home lender.
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U.S. stock futures lost ground Tuesday as concerns mounted about the viability of subprime mortgage lenders and whether their troubles would spread to other parts of the economy.
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Countrywide, the nationâs largest mortgage lenders, has been struggling to deal with the troubles in the mortgage industry.
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A tsunami of interest rate increases on adjustable-rate mortgages is coming, meaning that the worst of the subprime lending fiasco is far from over.
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The latest rumblings from the U.S.  mortgage debacle is seen turning bond bears timid in the coming  weeks or at least until the extent of contamination from  subprime assets is clear.