From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Bad Commercial Real Estate Loans Are Coming in Hot! And They’re Right on Schedule

August 12, 2009

It’s summertime and the living is easy, but if you’re a distressed debt broker, this is no time to be mixing Cuba Libres at the beach. There have been 72 bank failures in the first eight months of 2009, compared with 26 in all of 2008 and just 3 in 2007. So it should be […]

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Dynex Looks Like a Mortgage REIT That’s Built to Last

August 10, 2009

Dynex Capital Inc. is a rather small US-based Mortgage REIT that invests in securitized residential and commercial mortgage loans and non-agency MBS. Management has a significant stake in the common stock, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the company made almost no new investments in 2006 and 2007. As of June 30, 2009, Dynex Capital […]

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