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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (260567)	7/13/2010 10:50:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

sorry, that is a small part of the overall economy Huh? This is a small part of the economy: The Federal Reserve, in its first such survey, released Tuesday, found that demand has increased over the last three months for funding high-grade corporate bonds, stocks, residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other asset-backed securities. Big securities dealers had "generally loosened" credit terms to important customers, such as hedge funds, private equity firms, insurance companies and other big institutional investors, the survey also found. That's another sign credit problems are letting up. Some dealers offered lower financing rates, while others eased other terms such as the maximum maturity, documentation requirements and "haircuts," which refer to the percentage subtracted from the value of assets that are pledged as collateral for a loan. And why is every data point I put up invalid and your's the rock of gibralter? Is it because I am bullish and you are bearish? And because its more popular and accepted to be bearish these days?