Topic: Secondary Market Financing

As Pay Falls, Borrowers Lose Ground

LENDERS scrutinize all elements of a mortgage application, but one factor remains critical: the debt-to-income ratio, or the percentage of a...

New Program for Buyers, With No Money Down

When the housing bubble burst, one of the culprits, economists agreed, was exotic mortgages, including those that required little or no money down...

Fannie program offers excellent loan terms

If you fit the profile - typically buyers with little cash on hand or small-scale investors looking for a deal on a foreclosed house - a little ...

Schaumburg man regains access to home

A Schaumburg man who was living in his own yard after being padlocked out of his house during foreclosure proceedings was able to move back inside ...
Are you managing your investment portfolio properly?. . If it doesn't include some counter-cyclical stocks - or what the pros call "non-correlated...

Private equity

Subscription page What to do with unwanted private equity commitments? With deals typically spanning five to seven years, investors can wait the...

Scott Brown hits Seattle for Rossi

From msnbc.com's Tom Curry in Bellevue, Wash.: . . Scott Brown, the regular guy from Wrentham, Mass. who last January suddenly was the first...

Inequality, the crisis and government, ctd

MY COLLEAGUE thought our discussion about where to locate the causes of the financial crisis had left the issue of inequality behind. I didn't...

Government at the heart of the crisis

I'M FINDING the exchange on the financial crisis illuminating in a number of ways, but especially as it lays bare the ideological assumptions and...
Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC)'s Merrill Lynch division upgraded shares of American Capital Agency (NYSE: AGNC) to “neutral” from “underperform...