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...Here's where things start to get interesting: A lower price translates into a high potential return for an investor. When the loans were made, an investor who bought them at "par," or the dollar value of the loan, could expect a return of around 7%. That's a more than acceptable rate of return if you believe you will get paid back. But now that defaults are rising on home loans, investors are demanding higher returns to compensate them for the risk that a mortgage will end up delinquent or in foreclosure. A price of $0.26 implies that investor...
...loans start trading more regularly because of the government's PPIP program, the banks would have submit those loans to so-called mark-to-market rules. That means the banks would have to take a write-down not just on the mortgage loans they sell, and get cash for, but on all of the mortgage loans on their books. Banks hold about $3.5 trillion in mortgage loans. So having to mark all those loans down $0.21, not just the ones that are sold, would be disastrous. (Read "Geitherner's Bank Plan: Only a Partial Solution...
...throwing 76 of his 99 pitches for strikes.“[Suter has] been showing all year that he can be a really good pitcher for us,” Douglas said. “When he’s on, he’s deadly, so this start was really encouraging.”After a rocky second featuring three Harvard errors, Suter settled into a groove, scattering three hits over the final five innings—as well as engineering a timely pickoff—without allowing a runner past first base.The rookie pitcher also got some help...
...back to business for Harvard softball (15-7, 3-1 Ivy) as the team swept Penn (4-16-1, 1-3) in a doubleheader, winning 3-1 and 5-2 yesterday at Warren Field in Philadelphia, Pa. Finally hitting its offensive stride just in time for the start of the Ivy season, the Crimson beat the Quakers after splitting a weekend series with Columbia, in which the team was limited to only one run in two games. But the bats were on fire for Harvard yesterday—the team scored eight runs on 19 hits to overpower its Penn...
...certainly a step in the right direction. Several surgeons general in the last century took an aggressive stance on smoking; obesity is a similar major public health hazard and thus deserves a similar treatment. Helping students opt for cafeteria salads over chicken nuggets is an excellent place to start...