Sentences with phrase «mortgage bonds market»

One can compare these two to the trunk of a tree, with the mortgage bonds market being a large branch of that tree.

What caught my attention in late 2007 were the weird, amorphous, and ever growing trading losses in the subprime - mortgage bond market suffered by the big Wall Street banks.

And, just when investors thought they had seen it all, a series of outages in the United States gave the mortgage bond market another push up.

Kyle Bass, of Dallas, Texas, made millions by gambling against sub-prime mortgage bond market - and now he's betting on the collapse of whole countries in

ShareThe bond markets including the mortgage bond markets or mortgage backed securities market is casting doubt on the economic reocery.

Lenders set their own rates, based in part on what's happening in the mortgage bond market.

After the spring 2007 bounce, the subprime mortgage bond market started to fall again in early June, this time for good.

He made millions gambling against the sub-prime mortgage bond market - and now he's betting on the collapse of whole countries in Europe.

He figures prominently in the Gregory Zuckerman's book, The Greatest Trade Ever, and also in The Big Short, Michael Lewis's contribution to the sub-prime mortgage bond market crash canon.

Companies and investors that rarely bought the «toxic waste» of the residential mortgage bond market began scooping up bonds at discounts unimaginable previously.

He figures prominently in the Gregory Zuckerman's book, The Greatest Trade Ever, and also in The Big Short, Michael Lewis's contribution to the sub-prime mortgage bond market -LSB-...]

The shutdown of mortgage bond markets that financed many risky borrowers during the housing boom has also made it harder to refinance into affordable loans, they added.

Deutsche Bank is a dominant player in the commercial - mortgage bond market where loans on everything from strip malls to skyscrapers are packaged into securities and sold to investors.

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In the short - term, however, this increased leverage may actually be bullish for junk bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market debt and mortgage - backed securities as it brings higher prices and lower yields, he said.

After its September meeting, the Fed said it would keep buying mortgage bonds until the job market showed substantial improvement.

Investments that are denominated in a given currency include money - market funds, bonds, mortgages, bank deposits, and other instruments.

If policymakers, however, resolve to have no government involvement at all, the bond market will price it out for you, but the likely outcome is a residential mortgage market that is smaller, more expensive, and less liquid.

In addition, both variable and fixed - rate mortgage rates have risen over the past year as a result of moves by the Bank of Canada and fluctuations in the bond markets.

They have also increased the cost of new fixed - rate mortgages as yields on the bond market have moved higher.

History shows when the benchmark rate for everything in the economy from corporate bond yields to mortgage rates moves by this much, this fast, the stock market struggles in the following months.

Mortgage rates pulled back slightly at the start of this week, after the wild freefall in the stock market sent investors back to the bond market.

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

Another point, perhaps, is that it's no worse for the Treasury to print a trillion - dollar gold coin than it is for the Federal Reserve to buy trillions in mortgage securities to save banks and the bond market.

These include emerging market bonds, high yield debt, corporate bonds and mortgage bonds.

This leaves us roughly in the same position that we started the year, slightly overweight to spread product, i.e., investment - grade and high - yield corporate bonds and emerging markets (more recently, we also went back to a slight overweight on commercial mortgage - backed securities).

The 10 year maturity U.S. Treasury Note (UST 10 yr) is thought to be the primary benchmark for the U.S. bond market because it has the largest issuance and is used as the basis for fixed rate mortgage pricing.

For example, the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (ticker BND) is comprised of roughly 47 % in government bonds, 27 % in corporate bonds and 26 % in mortgage bonds.

The index covers the U.S. investment grade fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass - through securities, and asset - backed securities.

The Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is a market value — weighted index of investment - grade fixed - rate debt issues, including government, corporate, asset - backed, and mortgage - backed securities, with maturities of one year or more.

The market plunge for mortgages and corporate bonds had the virtue of preparing the ground for renegotiations, write - downs and write - offs along these lines.

Certain types of bond funds, such as broad market bond funds, are also diversified across bond sectors, providing exposure to corporate, U.S. government, government agency and mortgage - backed bonds.

Mortgage rates have steadily climbed amid a sell - off in the bond market, and there are signs that the increase could be slowing the housing recovery.

How they vote on these issues at the remaining five policy meetings this year will shape what happens in the stock and bond markets, mortgage rates and savings rates.

H.L.: The stock market, hedge fund managers, banks, and investors were all aflutter about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments about possibly tapering off on its monthly purchase of $ 85 billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage - backed securities.

While the Fed does not control mortgage rates directly, its policies do have an influence on the bond market and the lending industry.

Wall Street believes that an Election Day outcome such as this would be a positive for the bond market which, for homeowners and home buyers, would lead to lower mortgage rates nationwide.

While mortgage lenders have tightened their wallets since 2008, corporations have been borrowing with abandon, abetted by trillions of dollars in central bank liquidity and investors searching for yield they can no longer find in government bonds or money markets.

If the banks can borrow at less than 1 % in the short - term inter-bank market, and get nearly 4 % on Treasuries, or 5 % on government - guaranteed mortgage bonds, why should they ever bother doing anything else?

HERERA: Mortgage rates were undeterred by some of the recent moves in the bond market, according to Freddie Mac, the average 30 - year fixed rate rose just slightly to 4.42 percent.

Mortgage rates, on the other hand, are influenced by the 10 - year US Treasury bond, which is determined by the market, not the Fed.

And that dire prediction came before many of the big banks had started incrementally increasing rates on their fixed - term mortgages in the wake of market reaction to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's recent warning that $ 85 billion (U.S.) in monthly bond buying may be coming to an end this year.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

Quantitative easing is a process via which the Fed purchases mortgage - backed securities (MBS) and other bonds in the open market in order to lower bonds yields and everyday mortgage rates.

Of course, mortgage rates could move lower if investors head to the relative safety of the bond market and drive yields down.

Even so, that doesn't mean mortgage rates will go up because mortgage rates are more tied to the 10 - year bond yield which has been declining due to all the risk in the markets.

In another segment of the bond market, yields on Fannie Mae mortgage - backed securities — those used to guide lenders into the bond market — jumped to 3.21 percent in their biggest move since mid-2009, the Journal reported.

I'd be much more interested in how large JPM's mark - to - market losses are on the European mortgage - backed bonds than how much loss they've sustained on the hedge.

To do this, we trimmed several positions including: corporate bonds, emerging market debt, mortgage REITs and U.S. REITs.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to earnings from Apple after the bell today, and reports tomorrow on Japanese PMI, Chinese Caixin PMI, Eurozone GDP, PMI, Unemployment, US MBA Mortgage Applications, ADP Employment Change, Oil Inventories, and the FOMC Meeting Statement for near term direction.

Invests primarily in high - quality mortgage - related securities, providing diversification in one of the bond market's largest areas.