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DomaCom gets ASIC tick for bond crowdfunding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... cash rate with the security of a first registered mortgage and a loan-to value ratio (LVR) of less than 50%." "Mortgage Bonds will usually have a fixed term of 5 years and the current expected return of 5.04% with the security of a first registered mortgage ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... Bloomberg survey of 44 economists, most expect "Bernanke will push on with purchases of $40 billion a month of mortgage bonds and $45 billion a month of Treasuries" with the "latest round of bond buying will reach $1.14 trillion before he ends the program ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... to reduce - if not altogether stop - its monthly purchases (US$45 billion in Treasury notes and US$40 billion in mortgage bonds) by mid-year this year. Yes, you read right...mid-year 2013. That's how far market sentiment has turned.

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... this all we're getting? A number followed by a B instead of T? If the Fed's US$1.75 trillion worth of Treasury and mortgage bonds purchases -- over six to nine months - in March 2009 did not succeed in lowering unemployment and preventing disinflation ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... that PIMCO, BlackRock and the NY Federal Reserve Bank were seeking to force the BoA to repurchase US$47 billion in mortgage bonds packaged by its Countrywide Financial Corp unit. There was bad news on energy stocks. The energy sector fell the most overnight ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... particularly as many US banks hold preferred shares issued by the two GSEs. The Treasury will be allowed to buy mortgage bonds packaged by the agencies. The intention here is to ease the capital constraint on the GSEs, which should allow them to once ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... markets. The triple-A credit ratings of Ambac and rival MBIA have come under threat because of their exposure to risky mortgage bonds. That has forced banks to write down the value of holdings insured by the two companies. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Bear bargains and ambulance chasers

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... chasing, bargain hunters are gathering around sub-prime casualties. Bear Stearns, the second biggest underwriter of US mortgage bonds, suffered a stock landslide of more than 15 per cent and saw its third quarter earnings sink by 61 per cent after two ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on Bear Stearns's debt to "negative," saying the biggest US underwriter of mortgage bonds may have problems, including with its hedge funds, that could hurt the firm "for an extended period". The Dow Jones industrial ...

Economic round-up: Mortgage meltdown misery

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2007
... improved following the implosion of two hedge funds. Managed by Bear Stearns, the second-largest underwriter of mortgage bonds, these funds collapsed from substantial losses on sub-prime mortgage backed securities. To make matters worse ratings agencies ...
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