subprime loan造句

Those that did dabble in subprime loans were able to withdraw quickly.

Earlier this month they proposed stricter lending guidelines on adjustable subprime loans.

Even if a fifth of the $650 billion of adjustable-rate subprime loans went bad, that would be a blip in the $40 trillion market for debt.

Approximately 16 percent of subprime loans with adjustable rate mortgages were 90-days delinquent or in foreclosure proceedings as of October 2007, roughly triple the rate of 2005.

Wall Street Banks did a roaring trade packaging bunches of subprime loans into mortgage-backed securities, and selling them on to investors, greedy for yields (see chart).

The ABX Home Equity 06-2 index, whose price reflects the market's view of bonds rated BBB-minus backed by subprime loans made earlier this year, has fallen sharply since mid-November (see chart).

Those two giants did not cause the housing mess, but in recent years they greatly contributed to it, partly through congressional pressure on them to increase their purchases of subprime loans.