Hints and tips:
...No wonder mistakes occur. To understand this, it is worth perusing Good Supervision: Lessons From The Field, a new paper from the IMF. The title might sound dull, but the message is scathing....
...Fannie Mae’s pause followed the pivotal event for the mortgage market, namely the collapse on Friday of Silicon Valley Bank....
...China listings: US bankers wonder, why bother?...
...Then there are the ones who are re-evaluating things; they’re tired, they want to rest and wonder if they should go back....
...have been clients for many years – Clarke is also adept at transformational rock-star colour, recently turning Madonna pink, two-toning Dua Lipa and taking actress Rose Victoria Williams from brown to Mae...
...Today, her stable includes Chilean-born Alfredo Jaar, British-Nigerian Yinka Shonibare, and the American Carrie Mae Weems, as well as artists from different countries in Africa such as Zimbabwe-born Kudzanai...
...Following a decade of growth, the rate of expansion in the green bond market slowed sharply in 2018, which has caused some observers to wonder whether the niche sector has begun to reach its limits....
...Is it any wonder that even the titans of finance themselves are calling for a reset of Anglo-American capitalism?...
...Adrienne Warren piles energy and commitment into the role of Tina; no wonder she has a programme-credited subordinate — she surely couldn’t manage eight shows a week of such intensity....
...Small wonder, then, that many companies choose to remain private these days. The most famous “unicorns” (private companies worth more than $1bn) are entities like Uber and Airbnb....
...The Fed now owns more than a quarter of all mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...No wonder. Voters and politicians can recognise a rate increase. The Fed’s balance sheet, however, is a deeply mysterious thing, even for policy geeks....
...It’s reasonable to wonder if the government’s focus on “affordable” mortgages encourages excessively high prices and an inefficient distribution of home ownership....
...Little wonder....
...Immigrants and their friends can only wonder why he failed to act sooner....
...Still, we wonder how many of the people whose mortgages started in the spring of 2004 managed to last long enough to enjoy today’s lower rates....
...No wonder some of the funds have started a back-up plan – litigation....
...Part-time problems: Cardiff wonders whether discouraged workers who have dropped out of the labour force will return in an accelerating recovery — keeping a lid on wage growth and core inflation, or not....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Greenspan’s dilemma revived again: Izzy notes that the famous dilemma keeps resurfacing, but wonders… since we know what happened last time we ignored the benign inflation...
...Benn pays tribute to her sisters, from authors light, dark and vagina-preoccupied (respectively, Caitlin Moran, Rachel Cusk and Naomi Wolf) to young bloggers such as Ellie Mae O’Hagan and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett...
...“Those who have graduated and gotten good jobs wonder why they are not able to refinance those loans and take advantage of today’s historically low rates.”...
...No wonder George Osborne is captivated....
...NEWS Banks reach mortgage settlements of more than $20bn: BofA agreed to pay $11.6bn to Fannie Mae to resolve a protracted legal battle over bad loans....
...Little wonder that some senior US economic officials are quietly celebrating an end to the great housing market crash; or, at least, are expressing hopes that the market is “healing” due to a typically American...
...Brian Lancaster, strategist at RBS, said: “Principal forgiveness would release the mother of all pre-payment waves, so it is little wonder that agency securities are trading very poorly.”...
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