This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Imagine that you want to buy a house but are not sure you could meet the monthly payments. Your credit history is considered subprime -- not good enough for the lowest interest rates available. But a

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Liquidity is the ease with which an investment can be sold and turned into money. For example, when a stock is traded easily, the market for it is said to be liquid. Liquidity can also suggest the eas

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Subprime loans are high-interest loans made to borrowers with bad credit ratings. Now that the US housing market bubble has burst, more of these borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages, and this is causing big problems for subprime lenders and p

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. As the American housing market has cooled, worries about investments based on risky home loans have heated up. Last month, two hedge funds operated by the investment bank Bear Stearns nearly collapsed

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Financial markets had a rough week again as investors grew more concerned about the United States housing market. Much of the concern is about home loans to people with poor credit or little history

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In the last few years, many Americans have bought houses with ARMs: adjustable-rate A foreclosed home in Pasadena, California. mortgages. These loans usually begin with lower interest rates for the f

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Finance: Merrill Lynch CEO O'Neal Is Out After Huge Loss By Mario Ritter / Broadcast: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stan O'Neal This week, directors of investment bank Merrill Lynch

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 15 May 2008 French banking giant Credit Agricole says it will sell billions of dollars in assets to deal with subprime losses by its investment arm. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the new financial blow adds to the economic worr

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I spoke earlier to Bob Parker who's the deputy chairman of Credit Suisse asset management. I asked him whether he's impressed by the new highs in Asia and whether those numbers can be sustained. Well certainly it's justified by the high levels of gr

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Valerie Morris: I have to tell you (it) was another down day on Wall Street, ending a down week. Earlier in the week it was the Subprime Mortgage story, now renewed concerns about inflation, consumer prices rose a little bit more than expected in Fe

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Car loans in America 美国汽车贷款 Bad carma 因果循环 Borrowers, not lenders, have more to fear from the latest subprime lending boom 贷款人,而不是出借人,更加惧怕最近次级贷款的繁荣 For whom? 为了谁 WHAT would you

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By Jeff Swicord Cleveland, Ohio 18 March 2008 The subprime mortgage crisis has devastated property values and the quality of life in cities across the United States. In this, the second part of a three part series, VOA's Jeff Swicord takes a look at

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By Jeff Swicord Cleveland, Ohio 18 March 2008 The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has rattled financial markets around the world. The crisis has triggered home foreclosures across the country, causing thousands of Americans to lose thei

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By Barry Wood Washington 13 November 2007 With world credit markets still not functioning smoothly, experts say inadequate US regulation is largely to blame for the home loan related credit squeeze that surfaced last August. VOA's Barry Wood has more

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