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The Hunt For Yield Takes the US to Subprime Auto Loans.

The next US subprime problem, apparently, is in auto loans: Ms. Payne went with her daughter to a dealership that arranges loans for Santander and other auto ...

Why Subprime Phase 3

Before I start my theory about Subprime Phase 3, I want to clarify one thing. Everything I mention here is a short term opinion on where things are going. That ...

Welcome to Subprime Phase 3

After Phase 1 of subprime in Aug 2007, and Phase 2 in Feb 2008, we are now going into Phase 3 of the crisis. I’ll explain later about why I think so, ...

ICICI Bank – More On Credit Derivatives

Chanda Kochhar says a few interesting things in an interview with Mint: … there are four things that have contributed to the $264 million figure: $69 ...

ICICI’s Disclosure See-Saws: Openly Making Fools Of Us

Statements from ICICI: Sep 2007: “..treasury income was Rs. 1.75 billion which was a decline over last year Q2 of Rs. 2.4 billion, a 27% decline that was ...

The First Real Subprime Loss: ICICI Bank Gets Hit

So it seems ICICI Bank has around 1000 cr. ($260 million) of losses due to US subprime. ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s second- largest bank, had a ...

The U.S. situation – Bullishness Where There's Only Bull

U.S. home foreclosures are up 90% in Jan 2008. Defaults among subprime borrowers and those unable to meet rising payments on adjustable-rate loans drove ...

Subprime In A Lighter Vein

My dear friend Mohit sent me this incredible presentation on Subprime. (Larger version) And then this absolutely hilarious ...

More Subprime – CDO Insurers Downgrade, Bad Doc Trails and The India Impact

I wrote a long while ago about the Subprime problem in the US, and then followed it up with a few posts on the topic. Let’s see what’s happened ...

The "Subprime" Problem Means All Of Us.

In an excellent post titled “What is Subprime?”, Tanta at the Calculated Risk blog talks about what “subprime” is, how it seemed to ...