Writedowns on mortgage backed securities, downgrades send markets lower (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - More writeoffs of securitized mortgage loans that have gone bad helped drive stock markets lower Monday morning.
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HSBC Mortgage Losses Rise in US (San Francisco Chronicle) HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's biggest bank, reported another big hit from exposure to the U.S. mortgage crisis Wednesday and warned that bad debts could increase if the U.S. housing market
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