American Home Mortgage

(Newser) - The battered mortgage-lending industry will suffer another blow today as American Home Mortgage shuts down, making it the latest company to go under as home loans go bad across the country. AHM's troubles were common knowledge, the Times reports, but the speed of its downfall was unexpected. “We have...

(Newser) - Bear Stearns has blocked withdrawals from a mortgage investment fund amid Wall Street jitters over the crisis in high-risk subprime mortgages, the Wall Street Journal reports. Two Bear Stearns hedge funds heavily invested in subprime mortgages collapsed in June, and now another fund, which has only a tiny fraction of...