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Countrywide Mortgage
Countrywide Mortgage has increased sub-prime funding (i.e., loaning money to more risky accounts). Although sub prime mortgage rates are higher, so are the default rates. However, if the economy is entering a growth phase, lending to riskier groups should not be a short-term concern. The company's management seems to think its ahead of the curve and is looking to capitalize on the downward trend in the mortgage industry to its advantage by gobbling up smaller, down-and-out lenders when the going gets tough. According to a BusinessWeek article posted on Countrywide's website, the company wants to more than double its 13% share of the mortgage market. Countrywide has warned it cannot sustain record profitability levels as interest rates rise from 45-year lows touched last summer. It has said its mortgage servicing business, which services loans by mailing out bills and collecting payments, should help shield it from declining loan demand. With sales slowing, the inventory of unsold homes on the market rose in December to 374,000, the highest level since June 1989. At December's sales pace, that represented a 4.3 months' supply, the largest since February. Although it's still considered a sellers market, buyers are gaining strength.
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