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April 13, 2012 04:45 PM
Ginnie Mae issuance up 21% from last year

Ginnie Mae issued $29.2 billion in mortgage bonds in March, up roughly 21% from the same month last year.

Ginnie packages Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Affairs home loans into securities and guarantees timely payment of...

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April 13, 2012 04:43 PM
Ginnie Mae issuance up 21% from last year

Ginnie Mae issued $29.2 billion in mortgage bonds in March, up roughly 21% from the same month last year.

Ginnie packages Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Affairs home loans into securities and guarantees timely payment of...

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April 13, 2012 05:32 PM
Rehabilitation vital to REO-to-rental success

Any long-term REO-to-rental strategy will need to adopt extensive refurbishment plans in order to resell the assets.  Further, much of the foreclosed property that financial institutions would look to bulk-sell is currently in need of repair.

Morgan Stanley...

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April 13, 2012 04:15 PM
Rehabilitation vital to REO-to-rental success

Any long-term REO-to-rental strategy will need to adopt extensive refurbishment plans in order to resell the assets.  Further, much of the foreclosed property that financial institutions would look to bulk-sell is currently in need of repair.

Morgan Stanley...

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April 13, 2012 02:51 PM
Wells Fargo CFO optimistic about mortgage business

Wells Fargo CFO Timothy Sloan said the health of the housing market won’t be clear until “we look in the rearview mirror a few months from now,” but did say he felt it was getting a little better, in a televised interview on CNBC.

Credit quality for consumers is improving, which Sloan...

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April 13, 2012 01:05 PM
CFPB reminds mortgage firms of third-party liability

A federal consumer watchdog said Friday it would hold bank and nonbank firms accountable for outside service providers, including those in the mortgage industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the reminder to clarify that companies under its oversight...

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April 13, 2012 01:55 PM
CFPB reminds mortgage firms of third-party liability

A federal consumer watchdog said Friday it would hold bank and nonbank firms accountable for outside service providers, including those in the mortgage industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the reminder to clarify that companies under its oversight...

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April 13, 2012 12:02 PM
CFPB reminds mortgage firms of third-party liability

A federal consumer watchdog said Friday it would hold bank and nonbank firms accountable for outside service providers, including those in the mortgage industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the reminder to clarify that companies under its oversight...

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April 13, 2012 01:09 PM
CFPB reminds mortgage firms of third-party liability

A federal consumer watchdog said Friday it would hold bank and nonbank firms accountable for outside service providers, including those in the mortgage industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the reminder to clarify that companies under its oversight...

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April 13, 2012 12:08 PM
Wells, Chase positioning for mortgage rebound

The nation's largest mortgage lenders Wells Fargo ($40.80 -0.04%) and JPMorgan Chase...

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April 13, 2012 09:18 AM
Consumer sentiment takes slight dip from year-high

Consumer sentiment dipped slightly in a preliminary reading for April, according to a report released Friday.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index fell to 75.7 from 76.2 in a final March reading. That had...

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April 13, 2012 09:15 AM
Consumer sentiment takes slight dip from year-high

Consumer sentiment dipped slightly in a preliminary reading for April, according to a report released Friday.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index fell to 75.7 from 76.2 in a final March reading. That had...

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April 13, 2012 07:24 AM
Wells Fargo earns record $4.2 billion in 1Q

Wells Fargo ($40.80 -0.04%), the largest mortgage lender in the U.S., reported record earnings in the first quarter.

The San Francisco-...

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April 13, 2012 06:26 AM
JPMorgan Chase reports $5.4 billion 1Q profit

JPMorgan Chase ($53.68 -0.43%) reported a $5.4 billion profit in the first quarter of 2012, or $1.31 per share, a 3.6% decline from a year...

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April 12, 2012 04:05 PM
Housing magnified recession in Los Angeles: Bloom Raskin

The deep recession that hit Los Angeles and other parts of the U.S. four years ago is mostly tied to a deep fallout in the housing market, Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom-Raskin said in a speech Thursday.

While speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of...

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