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Credit Crunch Crisis, a result of raging hormones or rational decisions? (Sports Arbitrage News)

Over the past few days, the US financial markets has been like a scene relived from the Asian financial crisis in 1997.Even with the Federal Reserve Bank injecting $85 billions into AIG, the world largest insurer, the US stock market suffer its biggest decline since the 9/11 attacks. Apparently the move was not enough to [...]

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Subprime Lending Crisis, a Global Contagion (Sports Arbitrage News)

The subprime leading crisis came about because of the development of reckless lending policies and sometimes-questionable predatory tactics adopted by the mortgage brokers. The other factor indentified as one of the leading cause is the collapse in value of the mortgage back securities. After the dotcom bubble burst, the Federal Reserve Bank in attempts to [...]

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An End To The Sub-Prime Crisis (Sports Arbitrage News)

In the US, as last-ditch efforts to find a buyer for the fourth largest Investment bank. The Lehman Brothers, in the US failed, the Global financial market took a beating as shares prices nosedived resulting in losses running up to billions. People are calling it “Meltdown Monday” as the worlds’ credit markets reeled in aftershocks [...]

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Who is to blame for this Credit Crisis? (Sports Arbitrage News)

Just barely a week had past since the placement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under conservatorship, the US Federal Reserve bank was forced to lend the American International Group (AIG) $85 billion to help it tide over the crisis. Even then, the attempts by the Federal Reserve Bank have failed to placate the global [...]

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Financial Advice gleamed from History (Sports Arbitrage News)

New Century Financial was one of the largest mortgage originator of the subprime lending market in the US. The corporation had its humble beginning in Irvine, California in 1995 with just three individuals. By 1997, it had gone public with its first IPO raising 28.8 million dollars.  Within three years, the corporation was originating 4.2 [...]

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The effects of the Subprime Crisis on our lives (Sports Arbitrage News)

On September 10th, the Federal Government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two leading Mortgage Giants in the US, under conservatorship. The move by the Republican Government, quoted Treasury Sectary Henry Paulson, was to prevent a “serious risk to the financial system.” The Government primary objective was to address a serious credit deficiency as [...]

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Financial Experts or Financial Folly? (Sports Arbitrage News)

As the sub prime lending crisis continue to make headlines in the financial news, The Chairman of the banking, Finance and Insurance Committee, Senator Mike Machado, warned that the escalating foreclosures rates will not only affect homes owners but also the overall US economy.(Source: Oakland Tribune). The center for Responsible Leading predicted that 500,000 homes [...]

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With recession looming, Is our future secured? (Sports Arbitrage News)

Over the last few months, one news item, which keeps dominating the headlines, is the meltdown of the sub prime lending sector in the United States. We read of news that banks after banks are going bankrupt in the US due to the losses accumulated from their loan portfolios. The Silver State Bank in Nevada has [...]

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Seeing Red with the Recession? (Sports Arbitrage News)

As the recession winds its way from the USA to Britain and other key global communities, people are already reeling from the skyrocketing prices of commodities. Even the price of butter has become grist for small nervous talk in neighborhoods. Unfortunately, there is no stopping the recession rampage but people are not sitting down, waiting for a miracle to [...]

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