Sentences with phrase «u.s. subprime mortgage market»

The international financial crisis that began in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in 2007, for example, is importantly linked to at least two of the innovative financial techniques discussed in this book: securitization and credit default swaps.

Brazilian real estate developers are still betting on a local housing boom, despite the worldwide credit crunch that originated in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.

For example, heightened risk taking by investors and elevated leverage in large financial institutions and in shadow banking activities were among the factors that turned a downturn in the U.S. subprime mortgage market into a global financial crisis.

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You might have thought things had changed in world financial markets since the U.S. subprime mortgage disaster.

In response to a pessimistic Merrill Lynch report on Canada's housing market, for example, Harper said «We don't have the same situation here with the mortgages as was the case in the U.S. with the subprime mortgages there.

The commercial paper market, a vital conduit of financing for U.S. companies, has shrunk dramatically in the past two weeks because of worries that assets in the ABCP collateral pool included tainted subprime mortgages.

U.S. Housing Market Real estate investment trust New Home Construction Subprime lending Equity REITs Mortgage REITs Credit Crunch

Heck, only about 13 per cent of the entire U.S. mortgage market is subprime and most of those are not in default.