AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
NEW YORK -- Despite concerns about weakening mortgage credit quality, jumbo mortgages continued to defy expectations through the first five months of the year.
The performance of securitized prime quality, jumbo mortgage pools remained strong in May 2006, according to Moody's Jumbo Mortgage Credit Indexes. Delinquencies of 30-59 days fell 7.2% from their May 2005 level and, on a year-over-year basis, have improved in 11 of the past 12 months.
The 60-plus-day delinquency rate index, at 0.268%, declined slightly from last month's level, but remains elevated compared to its value of 0.220% in May of last year.
Delinquencies of 60-plus days have been slowly falling from their peak in November 2005 following an isolated spike, ...