First fall in loans since 2000 shows bubble has burst
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PREDICTIONS that the housing bubble has finally burst were confirmed yesterday by figures revealing the first year-on-year drop in mortgage lending for four years.
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Business & money: Numbers of buyers unable to purchase first home slump to the lowest level since 1980
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Anxiety over high inflation sent bond prices falling today and pushed the interest rate on the benchmark United States Treasury note above 5 percent for the first time since last summer.
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Mortgage applications plunged last week, and demand hit its lowest level since the start of the year as interest rates surged, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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A growing number of top economists believe that the U.S. economy has now toppled into recession.
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Business & money: Average interest rates on personal loans have jumped to almost double the advertised rate
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Consumer borrowing fell in October by the largest amount in 14 years, reflecting a big drop in auto loans.
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Business & money: House prices have dropped for the first time in two years, adding to worries of unstable market.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 7, 2004 - Consumers cut back on their borrowing in August by the largest amount since the end of 1990 as confidence in the economy fell and energy prices surged.
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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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U.S. mortgage applications fell for   the first time in four weeks even as interest rates dropped to   a six-month low, an industry trade group said on Wednesday,   providing further evidence the country's housing market slump   is deepening.
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Applications for U.S. home loans fell  6.3 percent last week after a brief bounce in early August  spurred by a drop in mortgage rates, an industry group said on  Wednesday.
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Sales of new US homes fall 23%, in the latest indication of the downturn in the housing market.
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly  plummeted 13.1 percent last month, the biggest dive in nearly  11 years, as groundbreaking activity fell sharply across the  nation, a government report showed on Thursday.
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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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Mortgage lending has fallen for two successive months for the first time in four years, reinforcing observations of a weakening property market.
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Treasury debt prices plunged on Thursday as fears of tighter monetary policy globally renewed the market's current downdraft and sent yields broadly above 5 percent for the first time since July.