Sentences with phrase «when subprime»

This started in the years 2006 and 2007, a not surprising fact since those were the years when subprime lending activity started to rise.

This is eerily reminiscent of the housing crash of 2008 when subprime borrowers were buying homes that they couldn't afford.

When the subprime mortgage crisis reached its peak in the fall of 2008, the federal government took steps to help stabilize the American housing market.

The FHA didn't jump to preserve market share when subprime lenders «went off the deep end» in relaxing credit standards, Olson noted in an interview.

Although FHA was caught unawares by a tremendous increase in its market share when subprime lending went south, it has made important strides in monitoring mortgage lenders and enforcing FHA guidelines for underwriting mortgage loans.

Many consumers are good borrowers that do not fit into a perfect box so non-prime mortgage loans become very appealing when subprime mortgage lenders get the flexibility they need from the banks to loosen lending standards.

February 21, 2008: Remember when subprime was going to be over in just a few quarters?

When the subprime mortgage crisis hit in May, Delvinia prepared for the worst.

Not exact matches

The Oracle of Omaha first got involved with the Charlotte - based banking giant back in 2011, when investors began questioning whether Bank of America could deal with legal fees and liabilities stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis.

From the low - level shysters who peddled dodgy mortgages to the Wall Street investors who packaged them into securities and the investors who bought them, everyone involved in the subprime debacle always seems somewhat put - off when reminded that at root this was a crisis about actual people and their actual homes.

Not long after she took charge in June 2006, Bair began sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by the explosive growth of subprime mortgages, which she feared would not only ravage neighborhoods when homeowners began to default — as they inevitably did — but also wreak havoc on the banking system.

The U.S. subprime crisis happened when household and non-financial corporate credit was below 140 % of GDP.

Recall that Gary Gorton provides evidence that many of the CDOs and MBS were not subprime, but when the market panicked a liquidity crisis became a solvency crisis.

The real estate market, which has been slowly rebounding since the housing crash and subprime meltdown a few years ago, is getting too high as prices in some cities are up 25 percent since 2012 when the market bottomed out.

John Paulson rose to legend - status when he earned a reported $ 4 billion betting against subprime mortgages during the financial crisis.

It is eerily reminiscent of 2007 and 2008, when no one really knew where the exposure to subprime - mortgage debt ultimately lay.

When enough people do it, and you've got a bit of momentum from this massive credit echo boom, part of this whole boom in subprime and non-subprime lending has been underwritten by historically safe money.

Benjamin Tal's (CIBC's Deputy Chief Economist) following statement, in the Financial Post, helps to clarify what a subprime mortgage can mean in Canada: «But remember subprime can be someone like a plumber,» he said, referring to self - employed workers, a segment of the market that Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. has mostly abandoned when it comes to backing loans.»

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

Radio / TV personality and Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa is taking aim at AG Andrew Cuomo, distributing a flyer that questions the would - be governor's role in the subprime mortgage scandal when he was HUD secretary.

He also claimed Cuomo was acting Castro - like when, as President Bill Clinton's HUD secretary in the late»90s, he backed subsidized mortgages for thousands of unqualified individuals, «helping to drive the subprime mortgage market under, and the result was the Great Recession» of 2008.

«When you hear subprime,» Robbie warns.

Its star and co-producer Margot Robbie strangely excels at direct address to the camera — as in The Big Short, when Robbie took a bubble - bath to better concentrate the minds of viewers while she explained the concept of the subprime mortgages.»

Default swaps, synthetic CDO, and subprime loans are not the first things that come to mind when watching a star - studded Hollywood drama.

While the subprime mortgage crisis remains the epitome of what occurs when greed and corruption go unchecked, a growing number of experts and observers are warning that a new economic scandal is taking shape in the United States.

Many civil rights leaders and teachers called for leniency, and some wondered why black teachers in low - income neighborhoods faced racketeering charges when white Wall Street workers who were implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis did not.

Here is a rundown of the documentation that subprime loan provider suggest that you carry with you when you initially go to the dealership finance department:

However, you don't have to be a victim of your credit history when you apply for a mortgage because of something called a subprime loan.

But HUD is not telling the whole story when it says that in July of this year that «FHA expands FHASecure to help homeowners with adjustable rate subprime mortgages who can no longer afford their mortgages and missed up to three monthly mortgage payments over the past 12 months.

Like I mentioned before, had you correctly predicted that the subprime industry was going to fail when Bear Sterns collapsed, you could still have lost everything if you didn't time it right!

(Spreads were tight when the worst of the subprime mortgages were originated.)

The only real way to have any degree of certainty about whether the stock market will go up or down is to either have insider trading information (which obviously would be against the law) or if you were an immensely gifted trader that could identify trends that other investors were missing as Dr. Michael J. Burry did in 2007 when he accurately predicted the collapse of the US subprime mortgage industry (and overall housing market).

@finemrespice @BoydRoddy AIG's Domestic Life companies lost all of their surplus when the AAA subprime RMBS underlying sec lending failed $ $ Sep 11, 2012

Although FHA is reining in «rogue» lenders who increased the agency's risk during the subprime debacle, things could go the opposite way when lenders» overlay» stricter underwriting criteria over FHA requirements.

The high risks incurred by hedge funds came to light at the start of subprime crisis when two Bear Sterns hedge funds, which were heavily invested in sub-prime derivatives, were almost wiped out on the back of plummeting assets.

Prime and subprime car loans are a good source of income for the banks when the economy is hot, but it can be a source of losses if people are -LSB-...]

Moreover, when it comes to bad credit applicants and subprime lending, you need to be extra careful because lenders tend to include additional fees and costs to maximize the gains to compensate for the higher risk that lending to those with bad credit implies.

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.

History shows us that when things start their descent into collapse — the subprime market is the first to get hit.

It is a complete turnaround from the terrible reputation subprime lending earned in the early 2000's when it primarily was used to buy homes.

From lenders to buyers to hedge funds, when it comes to the subprime mortgage crisis, everyone had blood on their hands.

Hopefully, we've learned our lessons about subprime mortgages and snake - oil brokers who promise you can afford a house when you can't.

A similar pace of increases between 2003 and 2006 most certainly did cool the economy, and the rise in short - term rates (and the effects of Fed policy on funding costs in global markets) may have precipitated the early days of the subprime ARM crisis, when rates were being adjusted sharply upward, causing payment shock for borrowers.

Rising auto prices could account for some of the increase in terms, but when combined with the information on subprime loans, the term increases constitute a warning sign.

In October, a South Dakota subprime credit card marketer, First Premier Bank, raised eyebrows when it offered a card with an interest rate of 79.9 percent.

And when the onslaught of subprime resets in option ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) runs its course from 2009 to 2012, and Americans default on them, American taxpayers will be left dangling and responsible for it.

All you can do is to turn the tables when these hardships arise, and subprime lending can help you accomplish that.

When he's not keeping readers informed of changes in the subprime market, Mike's hobbies include sailing and gourmet cooking.

When you're faced with a low or bad credit score, it's imperative that you understand why your rating is subprime (550 - 620) or poor (300 - 549).

In August, when rising defaults on subprime home loans, made to borrowers with poor credit, began causing market turmoil, the dollar initially benefited from safe - haven flows as investors fled risk for U.S. Treasuries and Americans repatriated funds.