UPDATE 1-US H1 mortgage bond issuance jumps-Thomson Reuters – Reuters
NEW YORK June 30 (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage-backed securities issuance jumped in the first six months of 2010 from the same period a year earlier as credit markets loosened up and investors’ risk appetite improved, a …
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The market for agency mortgage- backed securities grew $16.7 billion in March to cap a bigger- than-expected first quarter, according to Citigroup Inc. analysts. Net issuance reached about $67 billion in the first three months of this year, after the … Go to Source…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s call for changes to a mortgage refinance initiative is already costing bond investors, even before it can prop up the housing market and the economy. Obama said in address to the U.S. Congress on … Go to Source…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp ( BAC.N ) shares hit their lowest point since June 2009 on Wednesday, after accusations that the company inappropriately handled more than $47 billion in mortgage bonds prompted some Wall Street analysts to … Go to Source…
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