Sunday, April 27, 2008

How lending industry works!! Reasons for 2008 subprime crisis !! Mortgage rates going up

Fed is meeting next week and street is speculating quarter point cut. In spite of cut in interest ruts mortgage rates are going up. (30 year fixed is shooting more than 6%)

When I was researching about investments by banks and some hedge fund came across this excellent cartoon

Understand Subprime Crisis


Few reasons why mortgage is going up:

1) Investors are not that much inclined to Mortgage Backed Securities (CDO's) and are fleeing away from it.

2) Lenders are more cautious to whom they are lending. No more zero down.

3) Lenders are trying to leverage this situation by overcharging new home buyers and trying to offset their losses in subprime.

General consensus is such that, housing market will go down further, so wait for some more time before plunging into it.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

One month new (its not old) wedding day!!

“one month new wedding day” sounds little odd but much better but who cares!! (atleast we don’t period) This is a right time to add some more stuff to our wedding site.

Its been a month from my wedding day. Married life is fun and going great (Thats what people are asking me now a days).

Anu (my lovely wife) has uploaded our wedding album. There were more than 700 pics and we have selected some of them and have categorized it into three galleries i.e. Sangeet Sandhya, Wedding Ceremony and Wedding Reception.

Dipesh And Anubha Wedding Album

In coming weeks we will post videos where we have danced on different tunes.

Enjoy!!