SYDNEY, Oct 28 - Australia's commercial mortgage-backed securities market is coming back to life after a two-year lull thanks to improving investopr appetite and because banks are looking to to cut their exposure to property...
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 - U.S. securities regulators are not expected to consider on Wednesday a proposal that would require credit rating agencies to differentiate between corporate bonds and complex products such as mortgage-backed securities, sources...
* Consumer confidence posts biggest drop in eight months * Americans felt job market was worsening * House prices rise for a fourth straight month (Adds market reaction, comments from Robert Shiller) NEW YORK, Oct...
NEW YORK, Oct 27 - U.S. home prices rose for the fourth straight month in August and shoppers spent more last week, providing evidence consumer demand could be stabilizing. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller report on...
CHATHAM, Mass., Oct 23 - The Federal Reserve is not likely to soon repeat a probe of capital buffers at the nation's biggest banks, but the model of the across-the-board exam will be used again,...
HONG KONG, Oct 23 - Hong Kong's central bank moved on Friday to slow a surge in luxury property prices driven by rich buyers from mainland China by limiting mortgages amid growing concern over a...
* Bankers sculpt new hybrid capital landscape * Regulators provide window for "old-style" hybrid bonds * Investors lap up product they once shunned LONDON, Oct 22 - A rush of new issues is expected to...
SHANGHAI, Oct 21 - China's planned launch of a real estate investment trust (REIT) market will give mutual fund companies access to areas other than stocks and bonds, helping them to compete with banks, insurers...
* Obama urges financial industry to back reforms * To unveil initiatives on credit for small businesses NEW YORK, Oct 20 - President Barack Obama chastised Wall Street firms on Tuesday for resisting tighter regulations...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct 20 - The U.S. Federal Reserve has not decided on the sequence of measures it will use to pull back its extensive support for the U.S. economy when the time comes...