Sentences with phrase «negative equity problems»

The rate of completions of private stock has remained quite stable since then, with an upward blip prior to the negative equity problems in the late eighties / early nineties.

This is another tool to help overcome the negative equity problem facing many responsible homeowners who are looking to refinance into a safer, more secure mortgage product.»

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In the unlikely event the value of Bear Stearns is negative after entirely zeroing out both shareholder equity and bondholder claims - then and only then is there a problem for Bear's customers and counterparties.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

By contrast, Lehman had a more deep - seated «balance sheet» problem: negative equity.

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As you can see, the underwater borrower has a LTV ratio greater than 100 % (this equates to negative equity), which is a major problem from a risk point of view.

There is no easy solution to the problem of negative equity.

While it may sound like a way out of the financial hole, rolling negative equity into a new automobile loan will only prolong your financial problems.

The real problem here may be return on equity (RoE)-- net income's actually negative right now, but management predicts annual EPS of $ 0.46 once the entire fleet's operational (all other things being equal).

In the unlikely event the value of Bear Stearns is negative after entirely zeroing out both shareholder equity and bondholder claims - then and only then is there a problem for Bear's customers and counterparties.

«There has always been a clear correlation between higher levels of negative equity and new problem loan rates,» Blecher says.

The housing market's velocity has been slowed by the lingering problem of «negative equity» — when homeowners» property value falls below the value of their outstanding mortgage amount.