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Monday, April 21, 2008

S&P: Home Equity Delinquencies Rise Rapidly

by Calculated Risk on 4/21/2008 12:39:00 PM

From Dow Jones (no link): Most Home-Equity Line Delinquencies Keep Rising

Standard & Poor's said delinquencies on home-equity lines of credit issued in 2005 and 2006 shot up in March, underscoring continued trouble in the U.S. economy.
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S&P said that 9.19% of lines issued in 2005 and 11.45% of loans issued in 2006 are delinquent, up 6.49% and 6.51% from February.
This fits with the comments from BofA today:
"Credit quality in our consumer real estate business mainly home equity deterioriated sharply in the first quarter as a result of the weaker housing market."