{"id":255,"date":"2007-10-23T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/10\/mortgage_backed_securities_and"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:41:21","slug":"mortgage-backed-securities-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/mortgage-backed-securities-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Losses Mount as Lawyers Weigh Investors&#8217; Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe other shoe is dropping on mortgage securities holders who have already suffered devaluations on what many were told were low risk investments.  Monthly interest payments are now falling and in some cases have ended on securities backed by risky home loans.<\/p>\n<p>Large numbers of collateralized debt obligations (CDO&#8217;s) and mortgage back securities (CMO&#8217;s) made up of bonds backed by sub-prime home loans are starting to shut-off cash payments to investors.  Such cash flow cutoffs are expected to accelerate, as observers speculate whether this will cause a new round of panic in the battered mortgage securities market.  <\/p>\n<p>Owners of collateralized obligations, including investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and public pension funds continue to write down mortgage investments beyond the billions they have already written off.  Some of the securities may, for example, fall from 70 percent of face value to almost worthless overnight, bankers and analysts say.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/mortgage-backed-securities-and\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Losses Mount as Lawyers Weigh Investors&#8217; Options\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other shoe is dropping on mortgage securities holders who have already suffered devaluations on what many were told were low risk investments. Monthly interest payments are now falling and in some cases have ended on securities backed by risky home loans. Large numbers of collateralized debt obligations (CDO&#8217;s) and mortgage back securities (CMO&#8217;s) made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3753],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgage-backed-securities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Losses Mount as Lawyers Weigh Investors&#039; Options &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; October 23, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The other shoe is dropping on mortgage securities holders who have already suffered devaluations on what many were told were low risk investments. 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