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Arlington, VA -- Default rates rose on prime and subprime mortgage pools tracked by Friedman Billings Ramsey in January, even as the number of defaults fell among alternative-A credit quality pools.
"We attribute the year-over-year gains in default rates to the natural aging of the stocks of prime, alt-A and subprime loans, layoffs by automobile manufacturers and related companies, weak labor market conditions in Massachusetts, and the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita," FBR said in a report.
Those hurricanes affected the performance of loans in 12 metropolitan areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
In January of this year, the default rate on ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Default Rates Appear to be Rising in Some Mortgage Pools.(Brief...