US residential mortgage

Mortgage market given $4bn boost Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia Ms Bishop said the Treasurer had revealed complete lack of understanding about the residential mortgage-backed securities market last Sunday when he ... See all stories on this topic

Ending the Credit Crunch: Four Benchmarks to Watch MSNBC - USA None of this has been good news for the near-term growth prospects of the US economy. While the past year's escalating rate of residential mortgage ... See all stories on this topic

World on edge as US talks on Wall St bailout stall The Australian - Sydney,Australia Bank executives and economists are united in the belief the package, which will be used to buy the toxic mortgage debt of distressed US banks, is essential ... See all stories on this topic

Merrill challenges view that Canada is immune to US style housing ... The Canadian Press - TORONTO TORONTO — Merrill Lynch is challenging the prevailing view that Canada's housing and mortgage markets are more stable than their US counterparts, ... See all stories on this topic

The $700 Billion Question: Which Firm Will Manage the Bailout Money? Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA It was the government’s choice to manage $29 billion of Bear Stearns’ mostly residential mortgage securities. And it was “very involved” in working with the ... See all stories on this topic

US Rep. Maxine Waters Honored With 2008 Congressional Leader of ... MarketWatch - USA Maxine Waters' leadership with this legislation ensures that California cities, some of the hardest hit in the nation by the mortgage crisis, have access to ... See all stories on this topic

Hold-out Republicans propose own financial rescue deal AFP ... the Treasury the authority to borrow up to 700 billion dollars to finance the purchase of troubled residential and commercial mortgage-related assets. ... See all stories on this topic

More on the Cantor plan to insure everybody's mortgage By Justin Fox There's about $12 trillion in US residential mortgage debt outstanding. At the end of 2007 $591 billion of that was explicitly insured by the federal government, through the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration ... TIME.com: The Curious Capitalist - http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/

Keep Your Eyes On The Ball By MaxedOutMama(MaxedOutMama) ``I refused to go along with some of this stuff, and how they got around it, I don't know,'' says Raiter, 61, a former S&P managing director whose business unit rated 85 percent of all residential mortgage deals at the time. ... MaxedOutMama - http://maxedoutmama.blogspot.com/

Ending the Credit Crunch: Four Benchmarks to Watch By Vision(Vision) This will relieve anxieties surrounding residential mortgage-backed securities that -- rightly or wrongly -- are widely perceived to be a large collateral stake for the entire US financial system. On this front, there is very good news: ... Vision - http://21cvision.blogspot.com/

Global Central Banks Brace For Liquidity Crunch, Friday, September ... By Kalin Tasev(Kalin Tasev) ... US$10 billion in its first US dollar repurchase operation. Further, the Australian government announced that it will invest A$4 billion in two tranches in the domestic residential mortgage-backed securities to boost home lending. ... Forex News - http://forexfx-news.blogspot.com/

Stupid bankers By John Bull(John Bull) I could dazzle you with talk of mortgage-related derivatives such as RMBSs (Residential Mortgage Backed Securities), CDOs (Collateralised Debt Obligations), SIVs (Structured Investment Vehicles) and such like, but that is all quite ... Sir John Bull - http://sirjohnbull.blogspot.com/