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The Motley Fool
December 10, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Let's Raise the Hood on Mortgage Lending Since we're into investigating all manner of activities, let's take a hard look at lending.   |
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
March 26, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Here Come the Mortgage Regulators With subprime lending continuing to plummet, House and Senate hearings run the risk of further retarding a recovery in housing. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Der Hovanesian & Goldstein |
Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Orderly Deleveraging at Bear Stearns Here is an investor's tour of the mess at Bear Stearns, which has been figuring out what to do about a couple of its hedge funds that have made some not-so-successful bets on the subprime mortgage market. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2007
Goldstein & Henry |
On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Paulson Calls a Bottom in the Mortgage Market It's worth listening to a hedge fund manager who has a clue. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Bailout Ben's Bogus Brainstorm The Fed chairman would like to up the federal role, and use your money, to solve housing's woes. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
The Newest Homeowners: Big Banks The vortex of price declines sucking down values could spiral out of the investment bankers' control, leading to their own subprime devaluation. Investors, take note. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 23, 2008
Larry Tabb |
In a Tumultuous Economy, Wall Street Must -- and Will -- Find a New Model As fixed-income markets falter and write-downs proliferate, investment banks need to discover new opportunities and new strategies to manage risk. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Homebuilders Up 25% in One Day? Crazy? Absolutely. And housing's flood of bad news since then has already washed away the results. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2007
John Rosevear |
Is It Time to Buy a House Yet? The subprime mortgage mess has created a mixed blessing for potential homebuyers. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2007
Michael Goode |
Lehman Dodges a Bullet Despite fears, Lehman Brothers takes only a small hit from mortgage bonds. The first investment bank to report this quarter, their results may be a good indication of what's in store for others. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2007
Nick Kapur |
Market Buzz: Opportunities in Subprime Lenders Why some in the subprime market may be better off than you think. However, as with the mortgage industry, it can get you into some pretty hairy situations. But the profits are there for those who can see through the panic. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
The SEC Wants More Answers The Securities & Exchange Commission is expanding its probe into the mortgage mess. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Sham Gad |
What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Wall Street Under the Magnifying Glass Credit-rating agencies prepare to be probed by the attorney generals of New York and Ohio, as well as the SEC, as to how they managed to package pools of low-quality loans into groups and pass off portions of it as being A-list. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Foolish Forecast: Morgan Stanley Gets Ready to Deliver The financial firm will report it most recently quarterly earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
BusinessWeek
July 9, 2007
Goldstein et al. |
Mutually Assured Mayhem Wall Street is on edge, scrambling to buck up Bear Stearns and avert a domino-effect debacle. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
As the Subprime World Turns Weekly banking news: This week, earnings releases from several investment banks made the industry look like it's playing good cop/bad cop with investors. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
Henry & Goldstein |
The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
The Crackdown On Stock-Loan Schemes A criminal probe by a U.S. Attorney may reveal some of the mysteries of short sellers. |
The Motley Fool
March 13, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Is Bear Stearns Doomed? The market's betting against this notable firm, as rumors permeate Wall Street that the company faces an impending liquidity crisis. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Jody Shenn |
Bear Stearns Alumni Are All Over Wall Street The financial crisis hasn't damaged the careers of many former Bear Stearns executives who have found new high-level jobs on Wall Street. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2007
David Meier |
Quick Take: Subprime Scariness The process, not the outcome, is the scary part of the subprime disaster. Who's to blame? The mortgage lenders? The home sellers? The buyers themselves? (Whatever happened to caveat emptor?) |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2007
Mike Kasprzyk |
Quick Take: Goldman Sachs' Lending Hand The London Treasury seeks advice from Goldman Sachs for its struggling UK bank Northern Rock, reflecting confidence in the U.S. investment bank's uniquely strong brand and history of proven results. |
U.S. Banker
April 2007
Holly Sraeel |
Tough Lessons for the Subprime Market...Again That New Century finds itself in this predicament should come as no surprise. The burning question? When will the other shoe(s) drop, and how painful will that be for the industry and investors? |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Is Lehman Brothers Next To Go? After Bear Stearns' collapse, Lehman's future could be on the chopping block. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Credit Crunch Cuts Down Bear Stearns Bear Stearns sells itself to avoid filing for bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Smashing Numbers for Goldman Sachs Amid difficult market conditions and every reasonable expectation that the firm would hit some bumps, Goldman Sachs has an incredible quarter, reporting earnings per share 41% above the consensus estimates of Wall Street analysts. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2007
John Churchill |
Merrill Earnings Forecast Dismal, Congress Investigating Rating Agencies With many peers already having taken it on the chin, analysts expect significant pain for Merrill too. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2007
Dees Stribling |
Coming into Focus Mortgage REITs of all stripes tighten their lending practices to improve their outlook going forward. The subprime event may mark a permanent change in the business environment for mortgage REITs, as well as mortgage lenders and investors. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2010
William D. Cohan |
The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Housing Collapse Squishes Bear The risky mortgages that drove the housing mania were also prime ways for Wall Street to cash in on the greedy and naive. And now that the air is escaping and credit is being crunched, we're seeing the results. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman's Superhuman! Goldman Sachs' windfall from betting against the mortgage market amounts to roughly $4 billion for the 2007 fiscal year. |
CFO
January 1, 2009
Scott Leibs |
The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2007 |
From CDO to Credit Crunch The Bear Stearns hedge funds became central players in the mortgage mess. Read on to see how. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Leave It to Beazer Things keep getting worse for Beazer Homes. Its shares were sent tumbling in after-hours trading last night, as the media disclosed that the company is under criminal investigation by the FBI over potentially aggressive lending tactics. |
BusinessWeek
April 9, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
A Builder's Lending Under Scrutiny Federal investigators are looking into Beazer's mortgage practices. |
U.S. Banker
June 2009
Davies & Marquez-Garrett |
Financial Misconduct Is Not Just a Civil Matter The FBI is shifting more than $75 million in resources from counterterrorism work to help sort through what has been characterized as "the wreckage of the financial meltdown," and financial industry professionals are bracing themselves for the newest wave of recourse: criminal prosecution. |
U.S. Banker
May 2007
Thomas P. Vartanian |
Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Goldman Digs In Its Heels Just when you might expect major financial institutions to get quiet, Goldman Sachs is doing just the opposite. The company is maneuvering itself to parlay today's troubles into tomorrow's opportunities; investors take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Refinancing Catch-22 Mortgage refinancing is available ... for those who need it least. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
You Really Need to Do This Again Mortgage rates are down again. Time to refi? |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Paulson: Taxpayers Should Bail Out Subprime The Treasury Secretary thinks that American taxpayers should clean up the housing mess his Wall Street buddies made. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
Bleeker & Williamson |
Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Many are speculating whether it's time to get back into financial stocks. |
