Showing posts with label Mortgage freeze subprime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mortgage freeze subprime. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

U.S. puts heat on lenders to freeze rates


WASHINGTON - The Bush administration raced against time Monday to wrap up an agreement designed to prevent a surge of mortgage foreclosures that many analysts fear could send the economy into recession.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a housing conference here he is working "aggressively and quickly" to persuade financial institutions to freeze interest rates on hundreds of thousands of "subprime" adjustable-rate mortgages held by marginally qualified buyers. Read on ->