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  2. 2007–2008 financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    As interest rates rose from 2004 to 2006, the cost of mortgages rose and the demand for housing fell, causing property values to decline. In early 2007, as more U.S. mortgage holders began defaulting on their repayments, subprime lenders went bankrupt, culminating in April with the bankruptcy of New Century Financial.

  3. Economic bubble - Wikipedia

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    This may determine how central or relatively minor/inconsequential policies like fractional reserve banking and the central bank's efforts to raise or lower short-term interest rates are to one's view on the creation, inflation and ultimate implosion of an economic bubble. Explanations focusing on interest rates tend to take on a common form ...

  4. Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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    source: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, p.229, figure 11.4 Credit rating agencies came under scrutiny following the mortgage crisis for giving investment-grade, "money safe" ratings to securitized mortgages (in the form of securities known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations ...

  5. Insight: How bond vigilantes could check Trump's power - AOL

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    A surge in interest rates in the United States – the world's biggest economy and the lynchpin of the global financial system – would send shockwaves globally. Sovereign debt markets are ...

  6. What happens to the stock market when interest rates rise? - AOL

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    When interest rates increase, here's what historically has happened to the stock market.

  7. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, McClatchy Newspapers found that "little competition has emerged" since the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006 was passed "in rating the kinds of complex home-mortgage securities whose implosion led to the 2007 financial crisis". The Big Three's market share of outstanding credit rating has barely shrunk, moving from 98% to 97%. [227]

  8. What happens to the stock market when interest rates rise? - AOL

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    With the Federal Reserve now widely expected to jack up interest rates in March to beat back rampant inflation, investors in the stock market should buckle up for a more muted few months of ...

  9. Financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics , and many recessions coincided with these panics.