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The Motley Fool
June 12, 2008
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What's Your Share? Here's a new way to look at a company as a possible investment: How much of the CEO's salary are you paying?   |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bank of America Tosses Countrywide a Lifeline A $2 billion investment will help keep Countrywide Financial chugging along. Though helpful to Countrywide, the investment wasn't an overly bullish note for the stock. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Welcome Home, Countrywide May your new life be jollier than before. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Mozilo's a Pretty Sorry Guy Countrywide's CEO fails to apologize for the right thing to the wrong crowd. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
R.I.P., Countrywide Bank of America plans on ditching the Countrywide name in favor of its own less-tarnished label. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Mozilo Forced to Dump More Countrywide Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo sells stock as part of his 10b-5 plan; meanwhile, employees are forced into loyalty oaths. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Maria Bartiromo |
The Heat On Countrywide Embattled Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo answers critics who claim the lender helped bring on the housing crisis. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Bad Behavior at Countrywide Is it any wonder that Countrywide needed to hit up Bank of America for emergency funding last week? Does anyone out there really think that Mozilo believes in the long-term health of this company? |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Butcher's Boy on the Chopping Block Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's shady stock sales finally get some official scrutiny. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Countrywide Falls Off the Cliff What a difference a year can make. The embattled mortgage lender has announced a fourth-quarter loss of $422 million, compared with a gain of $622 million for the same period last year. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Buffett's Buying What? Speculation abounds that Buffett's on a binge. Here is the lowdown on the hype. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Countrywide's Future Is Anyone's Guess With its future riding on a pending merger, legal woes add yet more strain to the mortgage lender. |
BusinessWeek
September 11, 2006 |
Phantom Profits Countrywide Financial has been among the most aggressive underwriters of option ARMs. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Countrywide's Cheap Financial services firm Countrywide looks undervalued. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Why Your Stocks Are Getting Hammered Is company management really on your side? |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Countrywide Still Rots From the Head Another executive at the troubled mortgage company manages to land safely on his feet. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Please, Throw the Book at This Guy The SEC has filed a civil fraud suit against former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, as well as two other former executives. Insider trading charges may also be on the table for Mozilo. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Not the Time for Countrywide The news certainly isn't all bad at mortgage giant Countrywide these days. It is a solid company that will likely emerge stronger from the current crisis, but it will take time. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Clouds Gather Over Countrywide The problems continue and that doesn't look good, in Bank of America's eyes. |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Maria Bartiromo |
Inside The Mortgage Crisis CEO Angelo Mozilo says Countrywide Financial should not be lumped in with the subprime outfits that are getting hammered. |
U.S. Banker
January 2002
Paul Muolo |
Angelo Mozilo: Deposit Builder Countrywide's CEO expects its tiny bank in Virginia to amass $20 billion in deposits within three years... |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Cuddles up to Countrywide After one of the most volatile weeks Countrywide's stock has ever had, Bank of America agrees to purchase it for around $4 billion, or around 90% less than its 52-week high. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Countrywide Still Growing Mortgage business teetering? No way. Naturally, there's no guarantee that Countrywide will keep inching higher. Investors, the climate can change in a hurry. Take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
JPMorgan Is on the Prowl JPMorgan Chase may be looking to open up its wallet and make an acquisition. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Mozilo Meets Macbeth A tongue-in-cheek look at the current situation for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2008
Rich Duprey |
A Backhanded Defense of CEO Pay Congress is hosting a tete-a-tete for the heads or former heads of Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup to discuss how they could reap such windfalls in the face of their company's failures. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2007 |
Send Aid to This Countrywide: Fool by Numbers The financial firm released second-quarter 2007 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights... |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Countrywide's Misguided Pride The problem at Countrywide isn't a lack of pride; it's an excess, especially in the boardroom. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Countrywide's School of Higher Earning The mortgage lender's CEO stands to make a mint in severance if the Bank of America deal goes through. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Mueller & Dumortier |
Who's More to Blame: Mortgage Banking CEOs or Geeks Bearing Formulas? March Madness series: The financial crisis started right here, by giving a mortgage to anyone with a pulse. Or maybe it started with the model-building geeks in finance who made it possible for their banks to do the damage they did? |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2007
Emil Lee |
Is the Bottom Near for Housing? Recent developments indicate that the bottom of the current housing and credit cycle may finally be in sight. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2007
Morgan Housel |
3 CEOs Who Should Go Nobody is perfect, but these guys should be shown the door. Now. Read on about Angelo Mozilo... James Tobin... John Mackey... |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2007
Joseph Khattab |
Time to Dump the Banks? After reading the FDIC's quarterly report, you may just want to dump every financial investment you own, but don't panic just yet. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rumors Send Countrywide to the Chopping Block After shedding about 80% of its value in 2007, Countrywide Financial falls another 25% when rumors of imminent bankruptcy spread. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Subprime Symptoms Starting to Spread? It seems that subprime mortgage difficulties have already started to spread. There will almost certainly be a more protracted softness for housing than we might have anticipated as recently as the final quarter of last year. |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Risky Mortgages Still Plentiful Learn a lesson from the current mortgage mess. Mortgage money is still some of the cheapest money available, and can provide a smart financial move, but be careful about creative financing tactics that seem too good to be true. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2007
David Lee Smith |
You Can't Find a Bottom in the Dark Thornburg Mortgage's gloomy results were joined by all manner of housing and mortgage doom. Investors, you'll know it's time to start stroking those bottoms when they slap you in the face. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
4 Ways to Save on Your Next Home Turn the housing slump to your advantage. Here are some tips for negotiating the best possible deal. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Coy & Miller |
Is A Housing Bubble About To Burst? As rising rates in the U.S. send mortgage payments higher, demand may cool. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2007
David Lee Smith |
My Mortgage, My Government The current mortgage malaise is not solely the work of the free-market system. Blame government, as well. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Home Sales Still Sink The National Association of Realtors reports a 12.8% year-over-year drop in home sales as the market returns to normal levels following the housing bubble. |
U.S. Banker
December 2001 |
Letters to the Editor Countrywide Not Desperate... Telling It Like It Is... |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Bad Loans Get Worse Major problems in states like Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana prove that the housing mania's inevitable backlash is hurting Americans all over. Will Countrywide join defunct lender Novastar in Wall Street's dustbin, too? |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Cut Off ARMs to Spite Your Face Mortgage products aren't the problem. Borrowers are. Used correctly, option ARMs provide flexibility that can be extremely helpful to borrowers whose cash flow isn't steady and predictable. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Shareholders Should Hate Golden 'Chutes The idea of a big, fat golden parachute probably sounds great to a failed CEO. But for everyone else, it's a massive, illogical waste of shareholder capital. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Homebuyers Stay in Control Even industry insiders see weakness in the housing markets until 2009. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
John Rosevear |
Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Keeping the Builders at Arm's Length In the week that was, the market found its sea legs a little, there was some good housing news; investors could have bought the builders big on that economic news; thankfully they didn't. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Kate Plourd |
Pointing Fingers Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis?... Nasdaq's CFO moonlights as a minister... |
