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Altos Research 6/2/11 Report |
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Monday, 06 June 2011 13:21 |
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The headlines are reporting a double-dip for Q1, but the May numbers are showing signs of strength in the market (as did March and April numbers we reported months ago). Prices are rising in all the composite markets except New York and Las Vegas, which experienced only moderate declines.
It‘s the "Catfish Recovery." Catfish spend their time moving slowly at the bottom of lakes and rivers bobbing up and down from place to place without a clear direction. Expect prices over the long term to hit a bottom, rise a bit, sink back down, rise again—a pattern we expect with the housing market for several years. The housing recovery will take a long time and it is going to happen slowly. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 06 June 2011 13:25 |
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Why Bank Risk Models Failed |
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:05 |
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by Avinash Persaud, Chairman, Intelligence Capital Avinash Persaud, (c) VoxEU.org Originally published 4/8/08 Financial supervision arguably failed to prevent today’s turmoil because it relied upon the very price-sensitive risk models that produced the crisis. This column calls for an ambitious departure from trends in modern financial regulation to correct the problem. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:10 |
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The Interaction of MBS Markets and Primary Mortgage Rates |
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Written by Bill Berliner
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Monday, 04 May 2009 08:59 |
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By Anand K. Bhattacharya and William S. Berliner A poorly understood phenomenon among participants in the various mortgage-backed securities (MBS) markets is the relationship between the total cost of consumer mortgage credit (in terms of both rates and fees) and conditions in the capital markets. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 June 2009 19:27 |
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Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 07:13 |
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Published by the U.S. Treasury Department Attached is the full text of the Treasury Department's proposal for Financial Regulatory Reform, released on 6/17/09. Download Artlcle |
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Last Updated on Friday, 19 June 2009 07:19 |
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Callable Bonds: Better Value Than Advertised? |
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Written by Andrew Kalotay
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Monday, 01 June 2009 08:41 |
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Callable bonds have been around since the dawn of the industrial age. Today, issuers of such bonds view the call feature as a way to manage interest rate risk (as we do in the bulk of this article). But that was not the original purpose of the feature. An industrial corporation would issue bonds to raise capital to build a plant and would anticipate servicing the debt from production revenues. But what if the plant burned down? Insurance would cover the loss of the plant, but not the remaining debt service. The solution was to make the bonds callable and use the insurance payment to cover the cost of redeeming the bonds. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 June 2009 19:28 |
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