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From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 25, 2007 at 10:53 am ET
This is your crisp post. The one below it is your rambling post. You decide how much time you have to waste today on the internet. Don't say we don't offer high-class ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 25, 2007 at 10:52 am ET
It’s time to revisit this months-old question. (Some days it feels like “age-old,” but we do well to remind ourselves that “subprime” became a household word only quite recently.)Mortgage underwriting isn’t really that difficult, ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 24, 2007 at 8:16 pm ET
From Alan Abelson at Barron's: Skeleton at the Feast (hat tip Jas)In a piece [Merrill Lynch's David Rosenberg] put out Friday, he says unequivocally that if you're looking for the earnings recession, you need look ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 24, 2007 at 3:32 pm ET
From the Financial Times: ECB set to pump cash into money markets Fresh emergency action to pump funds into the money markets was announced on Friday night by the European Central Bank amid renewed fears ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 24, 2007 at 1:44 pm ET
The WSJ features a front page story this morning from Ruth Simon: Rising Rates to Worsen Subprime Mess The subprime mortgage crisis is poised to get much worse.Next year, interest rates are set to rise ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 23, 2007 at 6:25 pm ET
Nouriel Roubini writes: Recoupling rather than Decoupling: the Forthcoming Contagion to China, East Asia and Emerging Markets Paradoxically China is the one country that has, so far, decouple the most – both in real and ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 23, 2007 at 1:53 pm ET
From Alea (via Reuters): World’s First : UBS Triple A CPDO Blows Up Moody’s cut its rating on one tranche of a deal issued via UBS nine notches to “C,” one step above default, from ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 23, 2007 at 12:18 pm ET
From remarks by David Einhorn in October (hat tip Cal and NakedShorts)... the credit issues aren't just about subprime. Subprime is what the media says. Subprime is what the financial establishment says. Subprime is about ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 23, 2007 at 9:20 am ET
A little cognitive dissonance with your coffee from The Arizona Republic, via our friends at Housing Doom:The Valley's growing foreclosure problem is hitting the upper and middle class the hardest. Metro Phoenix homes in neighborhoods ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 23, 2007 at 8:32 am ET
From the New York Times:“It was a kind of avuncular, sleepy line of business,” said William R. Berkley, the chief executive of W. R. Berkley, a commercial insurer in Greenwich, Conn. “Then losses started to ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 22, 2007 at 11:36 pm ET
From MarketWatch: Japanese banks suffer 230 bln yen in subprime losses: report Japanese financial institutions have had to write down about 230 billion yen ($2.13 billion) on holdings linked to the U.S. subprime mortgage market ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 22, 2007 at 11:21 pm ET
From the WSJ: SIV-Plan Founders to Seek More Support for Superfund [Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co] ... are expected next week to start soliciting their industry brethren to ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 22, 2007 at 9:05 am ET
There are no better commenters on the net than the ones on this blog. This is an objective fact.
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From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 4:44 pm ET
Recommended reading: Tanta's letter to Treasury Secretary Paulson this morning: Dear Mr. Paulson I'm from The Blogs and I'm here to help you.Enjoy.
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From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 3:43 pm ET
From Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph: Credit "heart attack" engulfs China and Korea (hat tip James) The global credit crisis has hit Asia with a vengeance for the first time, triggering a massive flight to ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 2:49 pm ET
Click on graph for larger image.This chart is the ABX-HE-AAA- 07-2 close today. Another day, another record low. The CMBX indices are setting new records too.Note: Up is down for the CMBX indices. The CMBX ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 2:10 pm ET
From the Federal Reserve Charge-off and Delinquency Rates.Delinquency rates rose in Q3 for real estate (residential and commercial), consumer loans and commercial and industry loans. Click on graph for larger image.This graph shows the delinquency ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 12:30 pm ET
From Bloomberg: Europe Suspends Mortgage Bond Trading Between Banks (hat tip Yal) European banks agreed to suspend trading in the $2.8 trillion market for mortgage debt known as covered bonds to halt a slump ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 11:20 am ET
From Reuters: Derivative Fitch cuts $29.8 bln of subprime CDOs Derivative Fitch cut $29.8 billion worth of structured finance collateralized debt obligations and affirmed $3.8 billion of the securities ... On a related note, from ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 21, 2007 at 9:20 am ET
I see you're coming around to a view of the housing and mortgage mess that has a clear reality bias. You're not there yet, but the trend is inspiring. I want you to ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 20, 2007 at 11:13 pm ET
Form the WSJ: Paulson Shifts on MortgagesIn an interview, Mr. Paulson said the number of potential home-loan defaults "will be significantly bigger" in 2008 than in 2007. He said he is "aggressively encouraging" the mortgage-service ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 20, 2007 at 9:02 pm ET
From the Sacramento Bee: California lenders agree to freeze rates (hat tip Sacramento Land(ing) blog) ... Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a deal Tuesday with four mortgage lenders to freeze adjustable interest rates for some of ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 20, 2007 at 5:19 pm ET
MaxedOutMama has the story: Hell's Bells Ringing On Wall StreetHere is the 10-Q from the SEC.UPDATE: To help make the problem clear, from the Financial Times a couple weeks ago: ACA’s downgrade threat could leave ... ( more)
From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 20, 2007 at 4:20 pm ET
Click on graph for larger image.This chart is the ABX-HE-AAA- 07-2 close today. Another day, another record low. The CMBX indices are setting new records too.Note: Up is down for the CMBX indices. The CMBX ... ( more)
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