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Government MBS insurance should initially be available alongside the private-sector MBS guarantees.
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The securities carried AAA ratings, and yet offered much higher yields than other AAA-rated, non-MBS securities.
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The Fed is highly leveraged and faces the risk of significant losses on its portfolio of MBS and longer-term government securities once interest rates rise, as they must.
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The situation in agency-backed MBS is even worse, with foreign buyers all but on strike.
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Another round of quantitative easing that is, the purchase of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) is likely, with the objective of reducing longer-term interest rates to induce spending and growth.
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Essentially leveraged bond funds with 100% government-backed mortgage-backed securities (MBS), the Agency MREITs have lately been subjected to a series of negative but largely irrelevant news headlines.
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If there are government guarantees that are a backstop for the non-subsidized mortgages or MBS, the guarantees should solely support the financial instruments and not any of the financial institutions that are issuing them.
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Still, over two-thirds of the drop in MBS yields resulted from falls in Treasury yields.
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In QE1, the Fed purchased non-traditional assets for its portfolio, including mortgage backed securities (MBS) and derivatives.
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In a 194-page complaint filed in the New York State Supreme Court yesterday investors say they were looking for conservative, low-risk investments when they purchased hundreds of millions of dollars in Countrywide MBS between 2005 and 2007.
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