Sentence examples for packages of subprime from inspiring English sources

Many investors have lost trust in securitization after losing huge sums on packages of subprime mortgages that had high default rates.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charges that at least one bank, Goldman Sachs, knowingly sold packages of subprime loans that were meant to fail so that a savvy investor could most profitably short a pool of them.

The actions Friday involved two lending facilities set up recently by the Fed to meet the needs of banks, investment banks and other financial institutions hit by the credit crisis after a series of disclosures about the shakiness of their packages of subprime mortgages.

Packages of subprime mortgages came to $1.2 trillion.

Wall Street's appetite for these fee-generating packages of subprime mortgages became gluttonous.

Let's put aside the sorry record of Moody's and its brethren in inaccurately assessing the creditworthiness of all those packages of subprime mortgages and other exotic instruments.

Under Mr. O'Neal, Merrill moved aggressively into lucrative businesses like the packaging of subprime mortgages and other complex debt securities.

The S.E.C.'s inquiry into Goldman involved a package of subprime mortgages in Fremont, Calif., that the bank sold to investors in 2006.

Yesterday's warning was the latest among banks as they try to deal with the fallout from losses in the origination and packaging of subprime loans as well as lending to private equity firms.

Thus, if a package of subprime junk is given a triple-A rating by one of these federally sanctioned graders, buyers and sellers often feel that no more due diligence is required.

From what we now know, the package of subprime mortgages sold under Tourre's direction was assembled in part by John Paulson, a Goldman client and hedge fund manager who bet that those mortgages would default.