Sentences with phrase «last mortgage crisis»

Mortgage backed securities are also much safer today than they were during our last mortgage crisis.

Even after the last mortgage crisis of 2008, Fannie Mae had backed nearly 200,000 mortgages in the first quarter of 2015.

Not exact matches

The Fed raised short - term rates last month for only the second time since the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, when it slashed rates to near zero and began buying massive amounts of Treasuries and mortgage - backed securities to push down long - term borrowing costs.

Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

The bureau's rules have made it less attractive — though not illegal — for mortgage lenders to make some types of risky loans that went bad and sparked last decade's financial crisis.

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Following last week's emergency.75 percentage - point interest rate cut, the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee today slashed rates another.50 percent in a move designed to ease the mortgage crisis and stimulate the economy.

So - called «zombie» properties — vacant residences that have fallen into foreclosure limbo and the owners have essentially abandoned — have increased in the wake of the mortgage crisis and subsequent financial meltdown in the last decade.

But he has enjoyed tremendous success over the last several years wringing big banks for massive settlements over their role in the 2008 financial crisis, thanks in part to President Barack Obama, who appointed him chair of a national task force probing the mortgage industry.

We can reconcile this contradiction by appreciating the difference between getting stressed like a normal mammal (during a physical crisis that lasts a short time) and getting stressed like a human (over the course of, say, a 30 - year mortgage).

Under sweeping new rules passed last week, the 18 - month - old federal agency moved to help protect consumers from the worst sorts of predatory lending practices and shoddy underwriting standards that helped cause a dramatic increase in mortgage delinquencies and consequently the country's recent foreclosure crisis.

During the last financial crisis, there were widespread defaults among loans that would meet the qualified - mortgage standard today.

For mortgage providers everywhere, the economic crises of the last few years have taken their toll.

Consider in the last ten years, the overall markets have witnessed substantial losses — from the dot com bust to the current mortgage crisis and credit crunch.

1) I don't believe that financial and mortgage insurers have an actuarially valid business model, and the last crisis proved me right.

When the credit crisis started to unfold last summer, the key area of weakness within commercial paper was mortgage - related asset backed instruments tied to the already declining U.S housing market.

On Thursday, February 9, 2012 the federal government and 49 states entered into a settlement dealing with the mortgage servicing issues emanating from the foreclosure crisis of the last few years including the «robo - signing» scandal.

Deutsche Bank, which famously bet against residential mortgage bonds in the run - up to the crisis, recommended buying credit protection on the BBB - tranche last month.

Conduits issued $ 244 billion in 2007, the last year before the financial crisis hit the CMBS market, according to data provided by Jamie Woodwell, vice president in the research and economics group at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

New mortgage lending standards were put into place this month by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect borrowers from the risky home loan products that contributed to the foreclosure crisis of the last decade.

During the last financial crisis, there were widespread defaults among loans that would meet the qualified - mortgage standard today.»

Some real estate professionals had reported they were seeing a decrease in buyers in the last few weeks as more homebuyers were opting to wait on the sidelines for the debt crisis fallout and see what happened with mortgage rates.