Subprime lending was one of the main drivers of the financial crisis that fueled the Great Recession. In the years leading up to the economic meltdown, lenders approved many subprime mortgages ...

To be sure, there are many similarities between them and the subprime mortgages that precipitated the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. But there are key differences as well that should make it ...

Subprime crisis and the globalised world16 August 2007 Global financial markets faced a real crisis last week, which nearly caused the bankruptcy of old and large firms. Several funds that were active ...

At its annual conference in Paris today, it published the final report of its technical committee’s Task Force on the Subprime Crisis, which focuses on the failings in the market for structured ...

It appears that inflation has replaced the credit crunch as the financial markets’ biggest worry. Although the markets’ collective attention may have waned, that doesn’t mean the risks have abated.

Laird says rates on subprime mortgages have inched up between 50 and 150 basis points in the last six weeks — a jump of as much as 1.5 percentage points in some cases, or the difference between ...

The great carelessness that has marked the continuing U.S. housing crisis keeps claiming more victims. Yesterday, Statistics Canada reported that our country lost 39,200 full-time jobs last month ...

The United States subprime mortgage crisis will not peak until 2009, says rating agency Standard and Poor’s, adding it also underestimated the extent of fraud in the industry.

WASHINGTON -- As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes. A ...

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