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Worst 10-year performers: MGIC Investment abandons merger as mortgage losses mount
Filed under: Major movement, Bad news, S and P 500, Housing  In this series, we take a look at the 25 stocks in the S&P 500 Index (SPX) that have turned in the worst performance during the past decade -- what went wrong, and what happens next.I'll give you just one hint at the nature of the problems MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) is facing: MGIC stands for Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation. In other words, things were going just fine for the Milwaukee-based firm until about, oh, mid-2007, when the slime known as subprime hit the proverbial fan. <>What went wrong? At number 4 on our list...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The mortgage insurers created this mess
Filed under: Major movement, Bad news, Market matters, Bank of America (BAC), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Washington Mutual (WM), Headline news, Housing, Cramer on BloggingStocks, MBIA Inc (MBI)  TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says Fannie and Freddie aren't the true culprits here.
The blowhards and bluff artists and the Gang of Four -- Ambac (NYSE: ABK) (Cramer's Take), MBIA (NYSE: MBI) (Cramer's Take), MGIC (NYSE: MTG) (Cramer's Take) and PMI (NYSE: PMI) (Cramer's Take) -- truly have blood on their hands for this moment. So do the ratings agencies, the mortgage insurers and the salespeople who p...
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Beware the financial dirty dozen
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Filed under: Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), CIT Group (CIT), Merrill Lynch (MER), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Wachovia Corp (WB), Washington Mutual (WM), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Sell, Cramer on BloggingStocks, MBIA Inc (MBI) TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says he has no confidence in these hated names, and neither should you.
The financials are flying -- there are finally bid...
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Sy Jacobs' Picks for Continuing Credit Crisis - Barron's
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Sy Jacobs, founder of JAM Asset Management, foresaw the housing slump and subprime macro fallout. He now tells Barron’s that investors erroneously assumed Bear Stearns was a market bottom.<!----> More pain is ahead for the economy and financials in particular. Increasing defaults in banks’ core business of construction loans will cause many to disappear. Survivors, however, will gain back lending market share that they lost to “the Countrywide Financials.”
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Pools of capital keep retelling the credit story
MTG
Filed under: Market matters, Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Citigroup Inc. (C), Boeing Co (BA), Merrill Lynch (MER), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Honeywell Intl (HON), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Stocks to Buy, Housing, Cramer on BloggingStocks, MBIA Inc (MBI) TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says we know how it'll play out. Besides, there's money to be made elsewhere.
Nobody's dissing the credit crisis. We all see it. We know when it is back. We know that the write-offs for the banks and brokers and Fannie (NYSE: FNM) (Cramer's Take) and Freddie (NYSE: FRE) (Cramer's Take) will b...
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