Mortgage woes sting insurer MGIC again
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MGIC Investment Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage insurer, recorded another losing quarter on Wednesday, as the bond insurance industry continues to grapple with rising defaults in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
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MBIA Inc, a bond insurer struggling to keep the top credit ratings necessary to win new business, posted a record quarterly loss after writing down $3.5 billion and said it was looking at ways to raise equity to shore up capital.
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Marsh &amp; McLennan, the US insurance broker accused of rigging the market to win bogus fees from customers, yesterday warned lines of credit from lenders
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As the largest bond insurer fights to save its credit ratings, investors head for the door.
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Insurance brokers, whose images and share prices have both plunged in a fees scandal, will struggle to make up the hundreds of millions
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Accredited Home Lenders, a top  subprime mortgage loan company in 2007 whose risky practices  forced it to stop lending and slash its staff, is again  reaching out to borrowers with sketchy credit even as the  housing downturn deepens.
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Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co.  , a California subprime mortgage lender, reported a  fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, hurt by worsening conditions  in the market for loans to people with weaker credit histories.
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Danger lurks down the road for people with interest-only mortgages.
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Business & money: UK life insurer attempts to streamline its business after seeing its profits virtually wiped out last year
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Rival mortgage insurers MGIC Investment Corp  and Radian Group Inc  scrapped their merger plan on Wednesday, the latest casualty of the turmoil in U.S. mortgage markets.
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Concern over subprime mortgages extended the stock marketâs worst weekly decline since March.
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Mortgage applications fell for a  second straight week as interest rates remained near recent  highs, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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Shares of subprime lender tumble after margin calls.
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WASHINGTON, DC - Investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are feeling some pain in the wake of Fannie&#39;s recent accounting problems.
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Companies in sectors without obvious connections to housing are starting to feel the sting from subprime mortgages.
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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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Countrywide Financial Corp.'s   debt protection costs jumped on Tuesday amid rumors about more  financial problems at the largest U.S. mortgage lender.