" He added, "If I were the Fed, I would stop buying mortgage-backed securities today.
Questions about the value of the mortgage-backed securities have caused some wild gyrations on Wall Street.
JPMorgan is eagerly hiring commodity and energy traders, and mortgage-backed securities and equity derivatives specialists.
The mortgage-backed securities experienced dramatic, unprecedented declines in value, effectively rendering five corporates insolvent.
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There is also another way in which owners of mortgage-backed securities could be hurt.
One of her former students oversees the mortgage-backed securities repurchasing program at the Fed.
It is presumed that the market for the riskiest mortgage-backed securities has seized up.
With that market already collapsed, the agencies say they weren't rating new mortgage-backed securities.
Until global credit markets froze late last summer, Britain's banks were great fans of mortgage-backed securities.
If your bonus depends on creating and selling mortgage-backed securities you will create and sell mortgage backeds.
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It also widened the category of assets banks could advance as collateral to include top-rated mortgage-backed securities.
Packaging the loans into mortgage-backed securities that are sold to investors can lessen the risk to lenders.
These mortgage-backed securities are 50% less sensitive to prepayment when rates fall than comparable Fannie Mae bonds.
Mortgage-backed securities, the fund's biggest category, accounted for 52% of holdings, down slightly from 53% in April.
And backed by the biggest investors in bum mortgage-backed securities, she has a mandate to lay siege.
The value of mortgage-backed securities dropped precipitously this year after low-grade mortgages began defaulting at higher rates.
The two funds' collapse also led investors to question how big firms were valuing their mortgage-backed securities.
Fannie and Freddie played a significant role in the explosion of subprime mortgages and subprime mortgage-backed securities.
The insurer covered billions of dollars in risky derivatives on commercial mortgage-backed securities that also went bad.
The trouble is that these firms have recently insured a lot of risky debt products like mortgage-backed securities.
Before the 2008 housing debacle, investors were pitched subprime mortgage-backed securities that appeared to offer guaranteed high returns.
Goldline can watch the gold and Annaly Capital Management and Redwood Trust can look over the mortgage-backed securities.
Will the government bail out the losers as it did when the mortgage-backed securities bubble burst in 2008?
This is exactly what happened in 2007 when assumptions about mortgage-backed securities led to a cascade of losses.
You know, the underlying problem is that a lot of banks and financial firms have these mortgage-backed securities.
On Thursday, Bernanke unleashed a third round of asset purchases, this time focused on the mortgage-backed securities market.
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The problem had to do with American mortgage-backed securities, which have been upsetting the credit markets in recent weeks.
The Lehman U.S. mortgage-backed securities index is up 7.46% over the same period.
Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities shares are currently trading off about 0.1% on the day.
Hedge funds betting on mortgage-backed securities, emerging markets and commodities have been hurt.
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