Sentences with phrase «subprime mortgages started»

In 2003, with interest rates at historic lows, investor demand for high - yielding subprime mortgages started heating up.

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If the issuers of that insurance have to start paying up, many analysts fear the same sort of falling dominoes of i.o.u.'s that cascaded through the financial industry after the subprime mortgage market collapsed in the United States in 2007 and 2008.

That's one estimate of the cost of the financial meltdown that started 10 years ago with HSBC's $ 1.8 bln subprime mortgage loss.

When the great normalisation finally came (starting with rising risk - free real and nominal long - term rates and rising risk - free nominal short - term rates, and picking up steam with the normalisation of credit risk spreads, starting from the US subprime residential mortgage markets and derivatives based on them), a growing number of these highly leveraged open positions went belly - up.

A contrarian view is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led the way to relaxed underwriting standards, starting in 1995, by advocating the use of easy - to - qualify automated underwriting and appraisal systems, by designing the no - down - payment products issued by lenders, by the promotion of thousands of small mortgage brokers, and by their close relationship to subprime loan aggregators such as Countrywide.

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

They started with the 06 - 1 deal, which reflected subprime mortgage deals from 20 different originators from the second half of 2005.

The concept of subprime mortgage lending was born during the housing boom that started toward the end of the 1990s.

Have you noticed that mortgage brokers started making subprime loans because the credit worthy borrowers already had all the housing they needed for some time to come?

After loosing very much money by betting that the corporate bonds would fall in 2005 he started to search for new financial bubbles and finally discovered the beautiful world of the «Subprime Mortgages».

Perry was also one of a few on Wall Street to start betting against subprime mortgages as early as 2006.

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Associates are starting to look like the equivalent of subprime mortgages for law firms — toxic assets they want moved off their books.

After starting the year on a high note, things quickly tanked as the subprime mortgage crisis hit and the credit crunch took hold.

«Real estate took a pounding in home values and consumer confidence after the subprime mortgage crisis that started in 2007 spurred the financial crisis of 2008, deepening the 2007 - 2009 recession,» Gallup reports.

Real estate took a pounding in home values and consumer confidence after the subprime mortgage crisis that started in 2007 spurred the financial crisis of 2008, deepening the 2007 - 2009 recession.