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Do You Believe in Magic? MGIC's share price is growing while net income shrinks. |
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MGIC Investment Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage insurer MGIC Investment jumped more than 10% in intraday trading, as the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. |
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PMI Group Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage insurer PMI Group jumped more than 10% in intraday trading on big volume. |
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Massive Mortgage Losses Make PMI Group Miserable Losing big may keep the company from issuing new policies. |
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Get Out While You Can The housing market is still a looming threat, and all those who have piled into shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other speculative names, on the expectation that housing and consumer spending won't see another dip, should think twice. |
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A Wild Week for Fannie and Freddie Analyst downgrades. Worse-than-expected earnings. The lifting of federal loan limits. Put it all together, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have experienced one of the most tumultuous weeks in their history. |
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February 28, 2011
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Why Getting a Mortgage Will Never Be the Same Lots of changes are happening to the mortgage market. |
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Rising Tab for the Mortgage Mess The bailout of Fannie and Freddie could reach $1 trillion |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
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The Next Housing Crisis Is Brewing Is the government sponsoring the next leg down for the housing market? If so, what should investors be doing? |
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Credit Rating Crunch New capital rules for Fannie and Freddie could spell trouble for independent mortgage insurers. The two government sponsored enterprises may have to give preference to their worst enemies... |
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7 States With Delinquency Problems The Mortgage Bankers Association guides us to where housing problems are the most severe. Clearly, housing's widespread overall recovery isn't imminent. |
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September 14, 2011
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Banking on Clues From the FHA FHA funds report sheds some light on mortgage performance. |
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Foreclosure: Now an Upscale Blight Rising job losses and falling home prices are dragging down people who never dreamed they would get in trouble. |
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Homeowners Free-Riding on the Bank's Dime Foreclosed on, but still happily at home. |
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Fears of Defaults Subprime loans are behind the fears. They have not been tested in a declining economy and analysts don't know what to expect. |
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Curtains for the American Dream? How trouble with Fannie and Freddie could affect your ability to get a mortgage. |
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2011 Could Have Been Worse for MBIA As a key player in the mortgage-bond insurance industry, MBIA suffered greatly during the housing crash. |
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The Mortgage Lenders' Dual Masters Whatever steps some lenders and loan service agents are willing to take to help troubled mortgage holders, the crush of delinquencies and foreclosures, along with radically tightened credit standards in the mortgage industry, will make for a slow recovery for the U.S. housing market. |
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The SEC Wants More Answers The Securities & Exchange Commission is expanding its probe into the mortgage mess. |
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Housing Sings The Blues Real estate woes bring both worry and opportunity to the financial sector. |
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Does Increased Activity Signal a Housing Recovery? While increased mortgage traffic is largely tied to refinancings, it could represent a positive for housing. |
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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. |
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The Last Straw for Suffering Homeowners A spike in mortgage rates threatens any chance of a housing recovery. |
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At AIG, History Hideously Repeats AIG, the world's largest insurer, posts its second straight record quarterly loss, caused by a massive writedown of derivatives exposed to bad mortgage investments. |
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August 8, 2008
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Financial Stocks on the Move There's been no shortage of carnage in the financial industry. Here are some of this week's worst-performing financial stocks and a few tidbits about what's pushing them around. |
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Housing Market Stimulants Bush administration remedies for the ailing housing market may provide much-needed inducements for the market to heal itself. |
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SEC Fears Banks Are Putting Lipstick on Piggish Loans Are overvalued real estate loans inflating the book value of your bank? |
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Life After Fannie and Freddie: Canada Edition A modest proposal, modeled after our neighbors to the north. |
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A New Breed of Mutual Funds to the Rescue? Here's how Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff would reorder the financial system. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2010
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This Will Bring On the Real Recovery Now, some positive signs in mortgage financing are bolstering the argument that for real estate, the worst is truly over. |
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Will Rise in Foreclosures Derail the Housing Market? Even if you do not believe there is a bubble in house prices, fewer and fewer analysts are ruling out the possibility of at least some price declines in some markets. A dip in house prices, even in areas of substantial price appreciation, could cause foreclosure rates to rise. |
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September 19, 2007
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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. |
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Where's the Consumer Credit Crunch? Housing may be slowing, but borrowing is moving full speed ahead. Last month, figures for both revolving credit, such as credit card debt, and non-revolving debt, like car and student loans, rose. |
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November 8, 2011
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Fixing Housing: Easier Said Than Done Ever since 2007, there's been a push from both private executives and public policy makers to do more, tweaking every knob in an attempt to end the housing slump sooner rather than later. |
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February 4, 2004
From staff reports |
Commercial and Multifamily Originations Set Record in '03 Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations set a record during 2003, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The $116 billion in loan originations reported for 2003 were up by more than one-third from the $86.4 billion reported in 2002. |
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August 31, 2011
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A Jumbo Problem for Housing Limits on loans by Congress will hurt hard-hit high-end housing markets. |
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Mortgage Disaster Ahead? As interest rates go up, they can take you down. If your mortgage payments are suddenly higher, you probably have rising mortgage interest rates to blame. |
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July 2009
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Assuming an Old Remedy Maybe it's time lenders dust off an old idea -- the so-called simple assumption loan. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
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Let's Stop the Housing Crisis Once and for All It's hard to believe how easily it all could have been prevented. By simply following an old-fashioned standard for taking out a mortgage loan |
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August 21, 2007
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Quick Take: No More Jumbo Loans From Capital One Capital One pulls the plug on its nonconforming mortgage business. |
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Mandatory Education To prevent future stress in the housing market at the levels we see now, financial education should be required of anyone who receives a mortgage. |
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When Debt Is Too Good to Be True Beware of interest-only mortgages and other extreme loans. |
