America's residential mortgage market is huge.
Into early autumn, the mortgage market continued to slump.
For jittery investors, these are instruments that offer safer exposure to America’s mortgage market.
America's growing entanglement with the mortgage market also risks aggravating overinvestment in housing.
As early as 2005, Fannie executives publicly expressed concerns about growing risks in the mortgage market.
In 2007, mortgage defaults around the country sparked a crash in the high-risk sub-prime mortgage market, creating the worst recession in 70 years.
Together, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee roughly half of the nation’s $11 trillion home mortgage market.
Similarly, problems in the subprime-mortgage market were once regarded as too obscure to affect the entire American economy.
Everybody knows they are supported by the government, and they, in turn, are supporting the mortgage market.
The recent defaults in the subprime mortgage market may be affecting other bond investors and cutting off credit to the housing market.
” is the question posed by one of the characters in “The Big Short”, Michael Lewis’s new book on those few investors who bet against the subprime-mortgage market.
And troubles in the subprime mortgage market may spread, inhibiting lending to borrowers in better standing, and thus feeding back into prices.
Bernanke was asked about the governments rescue of two federally chartered agencies that are the biggest players in the residential mortgage market.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored giants of the mortgage market, were encouraged to guarantee a wider range of loans in the 1990s.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street plunged in early trading Tuesday, finding little to placate its worries about the wilting mortgage market ahead of Thanksgiving.
So when one starts to wonder why investors were so slow to wake up to the problems of the subprime mortgage market (see article), information overload has to be a factor.
A properly developed secondary mortgage market can play a useful role in channelling long-term funds, such as insurance and pension funds, to meet the rising demand for long-term home financing.
He said the government's role in the mortgage market should undergo "fundamental change" but was quick to stress that there should still be a "carefully designed" government guarantee for mortgages.
Reporters also learned that as a result of the four major state-owned Banks accounted for the vast majority of mortgage market share, so the people of early loan repayment a "crash" phenomenon.
Everywhere, countries need to look at their mortgage markets.
Bills to reorder the nation's agriculture, housing and mortgage markets followed in short order.
