Markets Grow More Nervous As Mortgage-Loan Losses Add Up
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Troubles with subprime mortgages cast a shadow over the stock market last week as investors worried about a potential growth in losses on loans to risky borrowers. Still, stocks managed to eke out small gains.
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The stock market plunged as investors were hit by fresh worries over declining consumer confidence, falling house prices, shrinking profits and uncertainty.
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Stocks edged lower on Friday as weaker-than-expected data on new home sales reinforced worries about the housing and mortgage markets.
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HONG KONG/SINGAPORE  - Asian financial markets were roiled on Wednesday by the widening damage caused by the U.S. subprime mortgage sector meltdown, with investors fearing more negative surprises will emerge in the region.
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The turmoil tearing through the residential mortgage market will probably harm everyday investors.
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There are signs that consumers are beginning to be more cautious as a result of the turmoil in the credit markets.
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OUSE prices have fallen for the second month running. Rising interest rates and warnings that the market is overheated have apparently left buyers running scared.
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Wall Street looked set to fall further on Wednesday on growing worries of a U.S. recession which battered Asian and European markets.
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There's an anxious face-off between sellers and buyers of homes as expectations of big profits fade
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U.S. stock indexes tumbled more than 2 percent on Tuesday after Merrill Lynch warned that ailing credit markets will hurt bank profits, while reports showing eroding consumer confidence and falling home prices added to concerns about the economy.
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Stocks dropped sharply in morning trading as a familiar scourge â losses stemming from subprime home loans â struck two prominent players in the financial industry.
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Stocks fell on Thursday as financial stocks fell on mortgage concerns, overshadowing earlier optimism about the technology sector's profit outlook.
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Americans are worried about the economy and fear housing woes and war spending could spark a recession, despite the interest rate cut this week that sent stock markets soaring.
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Stocks extended losses on Wednesday as a report pointing to a worsening housing market added to concerns about weakness in employment and the outlook for economic growth and profits.
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Central banks signaled that rises in interest rates were less certain than they had indicated just a few weeks ago as weak U.S. housing data sent fresh shivers through world markets.
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Wall Street lost momentum from last weekâs gains after news of declining existing home sales stirred concerns about the strength of the economy.
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Stocks rose in early trading as investors, though still uneasy about the economy, bought back into a market battered a day earlier by recession worries.