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• Commercial Real Estate Continues To Falter

  
  Stock Market Analysis, Trading, And Financial Commentary - Rebel Traders — Authority: 433
  The Bloomberg article says it all - Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Commercial property values in the U.S. declined in October to the lowest level in more than seven years as unemployment reduced demand for apartments, offices and retail space. [...] [...]Values are dropping as U.S. unemployment climbs and consumers cut ...
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• The Second Wave of Mortgage Defaults

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 626
  Our economy is about to relapse into the disease that sent us into the Great Depression: Part Deux. Subprime loans caused the initial illness. Option-ARMs will cause the relapse. In the first half of the past decade, subprime loans were king. They were cheap and easy to get approved. Along with the subprime boom came ...
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• Marc Faber Bullish on Agriculture, Natural Gas, Indian Banks & Real Estate

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following are highlights from part two of the three-part interview  Dr. Marc Faber did on Indian television channel, December 19, 2009. Dollar & Gold The dollar has been weak, but in Europe, the ECB is also a money printer.  The euro has many problems as well as other currencies that have ...
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• Have Things Turned the Corner for Funding Aussie Mortgage Growth?

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  It ought to be fairly quiet this week. The markets are open this week but everyones in transit to 2010. The airport here in Melbourne is full of people going home for the holidays, including your editor. But just because something ought to be so doesnt make it so. For example, oil ought to be heading lower - or at ...
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• Estimating the Impact of the Fed’s Mortgage Portfolio

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 670
  Some of the big questions looming about the Fed’s exit strategy are if, when, and at what pace the Fed should draw down its huge portfolio of mortgage backed securities (MBS). At its meeting last week the Federal Open Market Committee announced that it is continuing its MBS purchases at a...
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• What Happens to Housings Turnaround When Uncle Sam Backs Out?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  Many are heralding the recent blip up in housing starts as evidence that housing is "turning the corner." But lets not forget that unprecedented government intervention throughout the mortgage and housing industries is the only thing keeping these markets afloat. Continue reading What Happens to Housings Turnaround ...
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• Icap to pay $25 million in SEC fraud charges settlement

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 138
  Icap PLC is known as the U.S. subsidiary of the London inter-dealer broker . By paying $25 million in penalties, the company has settled the fraud charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Icap matches Buyers and Sellers for securities The SEC said that in the over-the-counter markets ...
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• Moodys Puts $143 Billion Of Jumbo RMBS On Downgrade Review

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  With the ABX Prime index stirring those willing to take risk on prime residential exposure, Moodys came out with a report demonstrating why there likely will be a recurring offer on the index. In short: Moodys Investors Service has revised its loss projections for US prime jumbo residential mortgage backed ...
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• The Dark Gray Swan: No More Foreign Dollars With Which To Buy US Treasuries

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Could the next black/green/dark gray swan be so obvious that it has avoided everyone? Well, except for the deputy governor of the Bank of China, who just gave the world a startling reminder of economics 101, when he said that it is " getting harder for governments to buy United States Treasuries becausethe USs ...
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• We May Never Pass This Way Again…

  
  Lynchburg Real Estate — Authority: 127
  It is said all good things must come to an end. While this may not be true in all areas, with phenomenally low interest rates, it is true. Mortgage rates have been artificially low for the last twelve months, thanks to support from the Federal Reserve and U.S Treasury. Last November, liquidity in the financial ...
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• Guest Post: American Purgatory

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Submitted by Greg Simmons and Brett Buchanan of Scope Labs Are financial markets a direct reflection of the overall health of a nation? I wish they were not, but I fear they are. I wonder at times if our nation has entered a state of purgatory –all of us mulling around in the waiting room to Hell, ...
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• Pillaging the Average American: Wall Street Paying Back Bailouts with Bailouts.

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  Pillaging the Average American: Wall Street Paying Back Bailouts with Bailouts. December 16th, 2009 admin In the last few weeks the corporatocracy has gone on a massive Madison Avenue public relations tour touting the great job banks are doing and how they are paying back the taxpayer for the generous gift of ...
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• Much of the Same from the FOMC

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 130
  The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ended their two-day meeting today the same way they have been for months now: keeping the target for the Fed funds rates between 0 and 0.25%, and claiming that the economy continues to recover, albeit very slowly : Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a ...
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• FOMC Statement: "Exceptionally" And "Extended", Liquidity Swap Arrangements Coming To An End On February 1, 2010

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Release Date: December 16, 2009 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met inNovember suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up andthat the deterioration in the labor market is abating. The housingsector has shown some signs of improvement over recent ...
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• Is The Fed About To Announce An Increase In The Discount Rate?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  One of the things that spooked the market yesterday was not so much any concerns of tightening language in todays FOMC statement, as much as a rumor that the Fed was planning on bumping up the discount rate. Krishna Guha, in a blog post, wondered , "might the Fed raise the discount rate at this week’s policy ...
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• Lenders Oppose Ratings Rule

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 154
  A pending Securities and Exchange Commission rule would amend the filing of registration statements, the Mortgage Bankers Association said. Registrants would be required to disclose preliminary ratings on mortgage-backed securities, according to a letter sent by the trade group to the SEC. But MBA is concerned that ...
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• When This Chart Gets to $1,250,000,000,000 – Mortgage Rates Are Going to Go Up….

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 140
  So what does this chart represent?   The Fed’s purchase of mortgage backed securities.   They committed last spring to spending $1.25 Trillion worth of our money buying mortgage backed securities and originally planned on doing it by November.    They then decided to “ease” out of things and take until ...
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• The Federal Reserve Becomes the ‘Buyer of Last Resort’

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 626
  The Federal Reserve is pursuing a pernicious policy that is insidiously debasing the dollar. This policy has generally been met with indifference, if it has even been noticed at all. The Federal Reserve is debasing the dollar by purchasing inferior assets of poor quality. These assets are mortgage-backed securities ...
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• When This Chart Gets to $1,250,000,000,000 – Mortgage Rates Are Going to Go Up….

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 435
  So what does this chart represent?   The Fed’s purchase of mortgage backed securities.   They committed last spring to spending $1.25 Trillion worth of our money buying mortgage backed securities and originally planned on doing it by November.    They then decided to “ease” out of things and take until ...
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• CMBS Lender Restarts Originations

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 154
  Bridger Commercial Funding announced that it has restarted commercial mortgage originations. Originations will be funded through commercial mortgage-backed securities. Loans are available from $2 million to $20 million.
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