Mortgage industry reloads as subprime misery lingers
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NEW YORK - Angelo Mozilo, the butcher's son who built Countrywide Financial Corp. into the largest mortgage lender in the United States, was in no mood for soul-searching over the subprime home crisis.
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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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Even borrowers with strong credit are feeling the pinch as home values fall and payments rise. Tuesday, several banks are expected to offer assistance to ease the burden.
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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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This just in from London: the U.S.  subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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THOUSANDS OF homeowners with poor credit are facing foreclosure because they can no longer afford to pay their high-interest loans. In the crack-up of the so-called subprime mortgage industry, these borrowers are the most visible participants. But they aren't the only ones who seemed not to understand what they were getting themselves into.
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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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For some investors, the misery of subprime loans, exploding adjustable rate mortgages and slumping sales mean one thing: opportunity.
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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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With more than $1 trillion in subprime mortgages still outstanding, some fear the financial sector's troubles have only just begun
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Troubles in mortgageland may get worse before they get better, especially for subprime borrowers, whose spotty credit histories put them into more costly loans.
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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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Home builders and financial issues, the biggest casualties of the subprime lending meltdown, were hit again by tax-motivated selling in recent weeks but could rebound a bit early in the new year, money managers said on Monday.
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A tsunami of interest rate increases on adjustable-rate mortgages is coming, meaning that the worst of the subprime lending fiasco is far from over.
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In Baltimore and elsewhere around the country, subprime mortgages, which are driving the foreclosure rate, have gone disproportionately to women.
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Home prices have plunged by 10 percent or more in some parts of the United States and interest rates on mortgages are at enticing levels, but many potential buyers are waiting for prices to fall further.
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Even borrowers with strong credit are feeling the pinch as home values fall and monthly payments rise.