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Calculated Risk (1,497 Links)
Created by MyPropsMonkey 206 days ago in Finance. Views: 215. Link Views: 5,399
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Bank Failure #124 in 2009: Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, Florida
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From the FDIC: Central Bank, Stillwater, Minnesota, Assumes All of the Deposits of Commerce Bank of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, FloridaCommerce Bank of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, Florida, was closed today by the Florida Office of Financial [More...]
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Moody's: CRE Prices Off 43% from Peak
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From Globe St.: Values Off 43% From 2007 Peak Prices nationwide have fallen 42.9% from their October 2007 peak, according to the latest Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index report issued Thursday, while Real Capital Analytics says total [More...]
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National Survey: Data on Home Buying Financing
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Here is some national data on home buyer financing in October. This is from a survey by Campbell Communications (excerpted with permission) released today. Source: October Trends in Existing Home Sales, a presentation from Campbell/Inside Mortgage [More...]
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Krugman on AIG
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From Paul Krugman writing in the NY Times: The Big Squander During the bubble years, many financial companies created the illusion of financial soundness by buying credit-default swaps from A.I.G. — basically, insurance policies in which A.I.G. promised [More...]
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Unemployment Rate Increases in 29 States in October
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From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 13 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau [More...]
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A Few House Price Forecasts
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From housing consultant Ivy Zelman commenting on the MBA Delinquency report in the NY Times U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High"I’ve been pretty bearish on this big ugly pig stuck in the python and this cements my view that home prices [More...]
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More on FHA Loans
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David Streitfeld at the NY Times adds some color: Easy Loans in Expensive Areas In January, Mike Rowland was so broke that he had to raid his retirement savings to move [to San Francisco] from Boston. A week ago, he and a couple of buddies bought a [More...]
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On Negative T Bills
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There was some buzz earlier today about short term T bill rates turning slightly negative. This happened last year too, but for different reasons ... From the Financial Times: Short-term US interest rates turn negative Short-term US interest rates [More...]
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States: Seriously Delinquent Mortgages vs. Unemployment Rate
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Here is a scatter graph comparing the seriously delinquency rate for mortgage loans vs. unemployment rate for all states. The seriously delinquent rate include 90+ days delinquent loans, and loans in the foreclosure process for Q3 2009 (Source: [More...]
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Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period Past Due
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Click on graph for larger image in new window. First, on the market ... This graph is from Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner): "Four Bad Bears". Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others are [More...]
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Hotel RevPAR off 15.7 Percent
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From HotelNewsNow.com: New Orleans leads ADR, RevPAR declines in STR weekly numbers Overall, in year-over-year measurements, the industry’s occupancy fell 6.4 percent to end the week at 52.6 percent, ADR dropped 9.9 percent to US$95.86, and RevPAR [More...]
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MBA Forecasts Foreclosures to Peak in 2011
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On the MBA conference call concerning the "Q3 2009 National Delinquency Survey", MBA Chief Economist Jay Brinkmann said this morning: The problem is moving to prime loans, including fixed rate prime loans, and also FHA loans. "We are [More...]
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MBA: Record 14.4 Percent of Mortgage Loans in Foreclosure or Delinquent in Q3
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The MBA reports a record 14.4 percent of mortgage loans were either one payment delinquent or in the foreclosure process in Q3 2009. This is an increase from 13.2% in Q2 2009. From the MBA: Delinquencies Continue to Climb in Latest MBA National [More...]
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims: 505,000
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The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims:In the week ending Nov. 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 505,000, unchanged from the previous week's revised figure of 505,000. [Revised from 502,000] The 4-week [More...]
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The Failure of Regulatory Oversight
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This is a recurring theme: a bank fails, the Inspector General reviews the failure and discovers that the field examiners saw problems starting around 2002, and ... nothing happened for years. We saw this with the Federal Reserve and the failure of [More...]
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MBA: Purchase Applications Fall to 12 Year Low
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Another busy day and I skipped the MBA market index earlier ... note: The MBA Q3 delinquency report will be released tomorrow. The MBA reports: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly SurveyThe Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage [More...]
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One million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits in January
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"It's déjà vu all over again". Yogi Berra From the LA Times: Jobless Benefits Set to Expire Unless Congress Acts About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January ... The [recently] added [More...]
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Housing Leads the Economy, Existing Home Sales are Irrelevant
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (feedproxy.google.com).  Views: 1
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After reading some of the commentary regarding the housing starts report this morning, it might be useful to reiterate these three points: Residential investment is the best leading indicator for the economy. Residential investment will not recover [More...]
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Falling Rents and Minneapolis
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From the BLS report on the Consumer Price Index this morning: The rent index decreased 0.1 percent, the index for owners' equivalent rent [OER] was unchanged ... The rent index decreased at a -1.3% annualized rate, and OER declined in three of four ranges [More...]
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AIA: Architecture Billings Index Shows Contraction
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (feedproxy.google.com).  Views: 1
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From the American Institute of Architects : Index remains in negative category despite improvement Amidst a continued high level of inquiries for possible new projects, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reached its highest mark since August 2008, just [More...]
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