Not exact matches
Trillions of dollars in student and
auto loan industry (
auto loan now has
subprime loans, just like back in 2007/2008 with the housing
market) could cause the
market to come crashing down again.
«
Subprime auto is sort of the new hot place to get into the securities
market,» Chris Kukla, executive vice president at the Center for Responsible Lending, told Bloomberg News.
In a blog post accompanying the report, New York Fed economists including Lee said
subprime auto lending is «definitely on the rise,» a change in the consumer lending
market that they will keep monitoring.
«We've got the
subprime auto bubble, a housing bubble started, the stock
market in a bubble, the risk assets all in a bubble.
Lenders may cut standards more to grab
market share as the pace of
auto sales slow and the number of
subprime borrowers stops expanding, the rating firm said.
There's a section of the
auto - loan
market — known in industry parlance as deep
subprime — where delinquency rates have ticked up to levels last seen in 2007, according to data compiled by credit reporting bureau Equifax.
Third - quarter reports show
subprime vehicle loans represent a smaller percentage of the
auto loan
market compared to the past five years.
Oblivious to the recent debacle in
subprime home lending,
auto lenders have worked hard to develop the
subprime (borrowers with credit scores below 640)
auto loan
market, offering seven and eight year loans and other strategies designed to make monthly payments low.
To make matters worse, the alternative available to you — the
subprime lending in the
auto market — might not seem too appealing because of what the public thinks and says about it.
Unfortunately, the lower scores of African Americans and Latinos are not a surprise, both because of the legacy of discrimination and because these groups have been disproportionately affected by predatory credit practices such as the
marketing of
subprime mortgages, overpriced
auto loans as well as higher foreclosure rates, all of which damage their credit history.
For one thing, these groups are already disproportionately affected by predatory credit practices, such as the
marketing of
subprime mortgages and overpriced
auto loans targeted at these populations.11 As a result, these groups have suffered higher foreclosure rates.12 African Americans and Latinos also suffer from disparities in health outcomes, and as discussed in Section IV of this testimony, health care bills are another source of black marks on credit reports.
Such examples of distress underscore the broader strains within the
subprime auto loan
market.
While the pain from an imploding
subprime auto loan
market would be much less than what ensued from the housing crisis, the economy is still on relatively fragile footing, and losses could ultimately stall the broader recovery for millions of Americans.
«The consumer credit
markets have been functioning extremely well the last few years, but an increase in
subprime lending has begun to impact delinquency levels for some industries, specifically the
auto finance and credit card
markets,» said TransUnion's Nidhi Verma in a news release.
There have been reports recently about how the
subprime auto lending
market is the very similar to the
subprime mortgage crisis and could very well be the next bubble.
If the crash has to do with some specific industry segment (for example,
subprime auto loans), you could see rents in certain
market segments get worse, where some rents stay stable.