News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Mortgages
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The demise of New Century Financial has been broadly viewed as troubling, as it involves the nationâs $6.5 trillion mortgage securities market.
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The panic engulfing mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC, Britain's fifth largest lender, may mark a watershed in the British economy by undermining the confidence of investors and consumers.
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The crisis in the U.S. subprime  mortgage market has heightened tension between mortgage lenders  and brokers who both hope to shape any laws aimed at stamping  out dangerous loans.
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Business & money: Europe's largest bank warns investors it could face further write-downs of assets because of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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Danger lurks down the road for people with interest-only mortgages.
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NEW YORK -- Throughout 2006, T. Rowe Price analyst Susan Troll watched in horror as one risky mortgage deal after another hit the market. She became alarmed by a widening trend: mortgage lenders issuing home loans of poor quality that were then packaged and sold by Wall Street investment banks to...
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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.
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Investor's Business Daily - Bill Gross, chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co., or PIMCO, said the subprime mortgage crisis will hurt the economy and force the Fed to cut interest rates by year-end. &quot;The subprime crisis is not an isolated event and it won&#39;t be contained by a few days of headlines in the New York Times,&quot; said Gross, who manages the world&#39;s biggest bond fund. He said subprime woes will reduce consumption and new-home building over the next 12 to 18 months.
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Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses the housing crisis, credit crisis and the Fed's new rules on mortgage lending.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The subprime mortgage crisis may be pushing housing prices down but it could soon have the opposite effect on Chardonnay, Chianti or Shiraz.
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This just in from London: the U.S. subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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Business & money: Building society damaged by the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US and other one-off charges
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For some prospective home buyers in Southern California, the effect of the U.S. mortgage crisis has been to keep them on the sidelines of the home market, wary of stepping in for fear prices will fall further.
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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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For months, securities backed by risky mortgage loans have been in trouble. Now, the credit-rating agencies that once blessed those securities as safe investments are in trouble, too.
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The turmoil in the mortgage markets has incited a wave of legal tangles, as homeowners are suing lenders, lenders are suing banks, banks are suing loan specialists. And investors are suing everyone.
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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.