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Phantom Profits Countrywide Financial has been among the most aggressive underwriters of option ARMs.   |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2009
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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? |
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
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
July 1, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Welcome Home, Countrywide May your new life be jollier than before. |
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
September 10, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Mortgage-Mess Criminals Finally Going to Jail In the wake of the devastating financial and housing crisis, many Americans have been outraged that more of the folks responsible haven't gone to jail. That may well be changing. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Dakin Campbell |
Wells Fargo Is Ready to Roll Careful mortgage lending practices helped the San Francisco bank avoid the problems plaguing large rivals such as Bank of America and Citigroup. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Roger Lowenstein |
Wall Street: Not Guilty Why have no executives gone to jail for their roles in the financial crisis? Perhaps because risk-taking and stupidity aren't criminal. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Paul Muolo |
The Year of Living Dangerously: Banks Cope with Fallout Subprime-origination volumes were hammered last year after concerns about delinquencies, credit quality and declining home values ravished the market. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
40 Years Is a Bad Way to Spell Relief Countrywide and other mortgage companies begin promoting 40-year mortgages. Investors, don't jump into this option without much due diligence. |
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... |
U.S. Banker
December 2001
Robert A. Bennett |
Gramlich's Words of Warning His suggested caution on subprime mortgage lending should be taken seriously... |
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
May 23, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: The week featured more dire economic forecasts and subprime shambles. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2011
Morgan House |
Why So Few Ended Up in Jail After the Financial Crisis Banks took down the economy. Why they walked away unscathed. |
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
September 19, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Will the Government Destroy American Capitalism? The law of unintended consequences is still stronger than any bailout package or regulation, and the more strongly the government intervenes, the bigger the problems it may cause. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Countrywide Comforts Investors ... to a Point Countrywide's third-quarter earnings had investors celebrating, but what's the bigger picture? |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Banks' Worst Nightmare? WikiLeaks, the ultra-controversial whistle-blower site that's been leaking classified U.S. military and foreign policy documents, says its next victim will be a U.S. bank. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Fannie Mae's Return Policy Fannie Mae is going to start honing in on mortgages it bought that disintegrated, retracing the steps to look for any fraudulent lending practices by the lender who originated the loan, and -- if there was an issue -- going back to retrieve some of the loss. |
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
January 12, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Countrywide's Cheap Financial services firm Countrywide looks undervalued. |
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
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
June 26, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Someone at Apple Should Pay Earlier reports from The Wall Street Journal were confirmed this week: Apple chief executive Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago at a Tennessee hospital. This should have been disclosed sooner. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
U.S. Banker
September 2008
John Engen |
Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here? |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2008
Mann et al. |
The People Responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have now so painfully proved, trying to serve the master of public policy while generating returns for investors will lead to disaster. |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Mara Der Hovanesian |
Lender Woes Go Beyond Subprime Few are feeling the hangover from housing's heyday as much as subprime lenders that cater to risky borrowers. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Which Companies Are Swimming Naked Right Now? Sometimes, things are even uglier than they appear in the banking sector. |
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. |
U.S. Banker
October 2001
Paul Muolo |
Subprime Hot Potato Subprime lending certainly has become a hot potato. While offering potentially high profits, it also carries with it a two-pronged threat. First, losses may mushroom if the economy takes a dive, as many expect. And these loans haven't been stress-tested... |
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 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
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. |
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. |
U.S. Banker
October 2008
John Adams |
DoJ's Open Season on Subprime The Department of Justice is suing Countrywide over allegations of abuse in bankruptcy and foreclosure processes |
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. |
U.S. Banker
December 2001 |
Letters to the Editor Countrywide Not Desperate... Telling It Like It Is... |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Holding Strong at Bank of America You can look -- the quarter really wasn't that bad. Honest. |
The Motley Fool
June 6, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: It was a roller-coaster in subprime land this past week. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Blog: Last Week's Top 10 Financial Shocks A whole pile of stunning news combined last week to become the biggest financial story of the past 50 years. |
U.S. Banker
March 2002
Paul Muolo |
Shelves Empty, Buyers Few Consolidation in the mortgage business has slowed. With the refinancing business booming, few servicers are up for sale, and potential buyers are showing little enthusiasm... |
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
July 14, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Curtains for the American Dream? How trouble with Fannie and Freddie could affect your ability to get a mortgage. |
