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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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From: Paul Kern12/13/2006 1:35:19 PM
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. homeowners had a harder time keeping up with their mortgage payments in the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday, with the delinquency rate rising to 4.67% from 4.39% in the second quarter. A year ago, 4.44% of mortgage holders were 90 days or more past due on their loans.

The foreclosure rate inched higher in the third quarter, with 1.05% of mortgages in the foreclosure process vs. 0.99% in the second quarter, the MBA said. While delinquency rates on all types of loans rose in the third quarter, it was the subprime category -- loans made to less creditworthy borrowers, that shot up the most to 12.56% from 10.76% a year ago.


"As we expected, in the third quarter delinquency rates increased across the board. However, increases were noticeably larger for subprime loans, particularly for subprime ARMs," said Doug Duncan, chief economist for the MBA.

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