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  2. Mortgage industry of the United States - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] The United States has home ownership rates comparable to Europe, but overall default rates are lower in Europe than in the United States. [8] Mortgage loan financing relies more on secondary mortgage markets and less on formal government guarantees backed by covered bonds and deposits.

  3. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage bond is a bond backed by a pool of mortgages on a real estate asset such as a house. More generally, bonds which are secured by the pledge of specific assets are called mortgage bonds. Mortgage bonds can pay interest in either monthly, quarterly or semiannual periods. The prevalence of mortgage bonds is commonly credited to Mike Vranos.

  4. Bond market - Wikipedia

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    Amounts outstanding on the global bond market increased by 2% in the twelve months to March 2012 to nearly $100 trillion. Domestic bonds accounted for 70% of the total and international bonds for the remainder. The United States was the largest market with 33% of the total followed by Japan (14%). As a proportion of global GDP, the bond market ...

  5. What are mortgage-backed securities? - AOL

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    A mortgage-backed security is a type of financial asset, somewhat like a bond (or a bond fund). It is created out of a portfolio, or collection, of residential mortgages .

  6. Securitization - Wikipedia

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    Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt ...

  7. The little-known factor that could help mortgage rates go lower

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    Mortgage spreads are the difference between the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate and benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yields. Multiple factors go into determining a particular loan’s spread ...

  8. Residential mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    Residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by residential real estate mortgages. [1]Bonds securitizing mortgages are usually treated as a separate class, making reference to the general package of financial agreements that typically represents cash yields that are paid to investors and that are supported by cash payments received from homeowners ...

  9. Secondary mortgage market - Wikipedia

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    The secondary mortgage market is the market for the sale of securities or bonds collateralized by the value of mortgage loans.A mortgage lender, commercial bank, or specialized firm will group together many loans (from the "primary mortgage market" [1]) and sell grouped loans known as collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) or mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to investors such as pension ...