Companies, banks begin to shed subprime torpor
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Companies showed signs of shrugging off the caution that has enveloped the world economy since a credit crisis broke, as investors looked on Tuesday to U.S. data to gauge the likelihood of a Federal Reserve rate cut.
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Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they canât.
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Credit Suisse  reduced total  write-downs from the subprime crisis on Tuesday in dramatic  contrast to rising charges by rivals, and raked in billions of  new investments from wealthy clients.
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The proposal by federal regulators comes as subprime mortgages have come under stress and scrutiny.
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For a good idea whether stocks have shrugged off the subprime blues, look at the charts.
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This is hyperfinance. In the space of five frenetic days, stock markets have plunged and recovered; the US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates to 3.5 per cent; so-called "monoline" insurers, revealed as a small but vital valve in the financial machinery, have wobbled; and one J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Kerviel has lost EU5bn for a venerable French bank.
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HARTFORD, Conn.  -- General Electric Co. is getting out of the subprime mortgage business, the latest company to distance itself from an industry that seems to grow messier by the week.
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The stock market fell sharply last week as the subprime mortgage crisis spilled over into the broad financial markets.
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Rating companies began a new wave of rating cuts Thursday as they reassessed the fallout from deteriorating subprime loans, drawing increased scrutiny from investors who are questioning why the agencies failed to act earlier.
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Large companies that bought subprime lenders during a boom in the market are now scrambling to sell them or scale back their exposure.
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U.S. stocks fell on Friday, as banks and brokers retreated on concerns about the impact of tightening credit on takeovers and the subprime mortgage industry.
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The shares of U.S. commercial and  investment banks fell on Tuesday after two bond rating agencies  started to downgrade billions of dollars of securities backed  by subprime bonds, triggering concerns that bond sales and  lending businesses could slow.
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One year after the first alarm bells of the subprime mortgage crisis rang on Wall Street, many of its victims are trading at half their value or less, while others have long been buried.
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NEW YORK  -Stocks slid on Tuesday as the subprime mortgage crisis escalated, undermining banking shares while Home Depot Inc. and other housing-related companies lowered their outlooks.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.   subprime mortgage bonds issued last year are being downgraded  by rating companies at the fastest rate of any issuer,  according to Citigroup Inc. research dated June 22.
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Swiss bank UBSâs string of stinging financial disclosures is symptomatic of how the subprime drama has unfolded in Europe and is stoking fears of more shocks to come.
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Markets fell on Friday as losses stemming from subprime home loans struck two prominent players in the financial industry.