Santa Rosa Press Democrat - ... mortgage securities that are on the skids. Nine months into the meltdown of the home loan ... credit rating and research firm, said he expects that this was not the last of the bad news from E-Trade on its mortgage holdings. He said the roughly $440 million in charges and loan ...

As mortgage rates adjust, some find a heavy burden
Tacoma News Tribune - Closer to home, loan officers and brokers say the most exotic, and risky, of ... once called subprime products – loans sold to buyers with shaky credit ... Portmann called an adjustable-rate mortgage “a situational loan” ideal for people whose lives ...