TERM PAPER ON
IMPACT OF SUB-PRIME CRISIS ON INDIAN CAPITAL MARKET
BY
RASHI AGARWAL
14BSP1150
INTRODUCTION
The US Subprime Crisis was a set of events that led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the most severe financial crisis that the world has ever faced since the Great Depression of 1930s. The crisis was a result of excessive amounts of loans made to people who could not afford them. These people were classified as the subprime borrowers. They are usually those who have weakened credit histories that include payment delinquencies, and severe problems such as charge-offs, judgments, and bankruptcies. They may also display reduced repayment capacity as measured by credit scores. Loans to borrowers displaying one or more of these characteristics at the time of origination are subprime loans. Such loans have a higher risk of default than loans to prime borrowers.
BACKGROUND OF THE CRISIS
The Financial Crisis of originated from the US housing sector in 2001-02, gradually increased and eventually brought the entire world economy in its grip. It is characterized by liquidity in the global credit and housing market, triggered by the failure of mortgage companies, investment banks, and government institutions which had heavily invested in subprime loans. Though the crisis started in 2005-06, but it become more visible during 2007-08, when many of the Wall Street firms collapsed.
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Subprime lending became prevalent in the early 2000’s when property values were sky-rocketing and many Americans thought they would fulfill their home ownership dreams, by obtaining loans they may not otherwise qualify for. A subprime loan is a loan offered to an individual who does not qualify for a loan at the prime rate due to their credit history. Subprime loans have higher interest rates because of the risk that the lender is taking. During the early 2000’s the housing market was great for homebuyers, since interest rates where low and property values
The financial crisis that occurred in 2007-2008 is narrowly related to what happened with the housing market and the foreclosure crisis. In 2006, the housing market peaked due to newly available loans such as interest adjustable loans, interest only loans, and zero down loans for people with low-income jobs. Housing prices were increasing radically and new homeowners were taking out mortgages that they would be unable to pay for in the future, all in order to be able to afford homes with such steep real estate value. By 2007, things began to go downhill. Interest rates had begun to rise steeply, mortgage companies had to file bankruptcy, and banks across the country required bailout funds from the U.S. Treasury in an effort to recover
The financial crisis did not happen in a day or two, it was triggered by a variety of events that happened.in years ago. In year 1998, The Glass-Steagall legislation was repealed, it is a legislation that separated investments and commercial banking activities in the financial sector. This act then allowed banks in the US to act in both the commercial and investment fields, which allowed them to participate in highly risky business. This is somehow responsible for the mortgage-backed derivatives, which is a main cause of the
During the housing crisis there were many factors in what had happened to the housing bubble in 2007(Curry 2013). These factors listed played a major part in the crash of the housing market. Subprime loans are just part of what had led to the market crashing. Subprime loan is giving people a loan who may not be able to keep up with the monthly payment. They were generally turned away for low credit, or may not have any qualifications to help them get a loan from prime lenders. The following reasons are reasons that came up on multiple occasions when reading:
The subprime mortgage crisis was a result of mortgage brokers selling mortgage products to people with terrible credit, no down payments for the house, no stable income into the home, and basically no nothing instead of selling it to responsible people who they knew would not default on their mortgage. (Let’s call the reliable homeowners prime and the unreliable ones sub-prime for times sake). They would give out home mortgages to everyone knowing that they wouldn’t be responsible for the mortgage that they give out, but that they would be able to sell them to investment bankers, who would then sell them to investors, hedge funds, etc or at least be left with a house as housing prices always rise. But let’s start from the beginning of how this whole mess started.
The financial crisis was mainly caused by the housing bubble and the domino effect that put in place. Our entire housing market was propped up on these terrible mortgages that were hidden within huge groups of mortgages. These groups of mortgages were rated higher than the content within deserved. It created a false sense of security in mortgage bonds. The banks were backed by these terrible CDOs and MBSs. The rating agencies falsely rating these CDOs and MBSs worsened the issue. People no longer knew what they were investing in, because the erroneous ratings given by the rating agencies. It was no longer just our housing market being propped up on these subprime mortgages; it was now most of our large financial firms. Ergo, a large portion of our economy being propped up on mortgage pools that were bound to be defaulted on by the masses. Surely enough, the housing bubble did burst and left our economy in
In 2008, the stock market crash began. Many people couldn’t afford to buy anything in the time being because of the financial crisis.The financial crisis was even worst then the Great Depression of the 1930s. Many people lost their employments and received low payment from their jobs. The financial crisis actually began in early 2006 because of the subprime mortgage market in the United States, which increased the rate of non-payment. The federal reserve and the treasury department put a stop to the United States banking system from being crumpled. The financial crisis in 2008 caused a lot of economic turmoil because of the increased of unemployment rate and the mortgage crisis.
Eight years later and the United States is still recovering from the Financial Crisis of 2007. When housing prices peaked in the summer of 2006, the downturn of the housing market began. The first indications of the financial crisis were apparent in falling prices of the securities, and by July 2007 the price declines were outrageous. The events of this particular crisis can be divided into four major phases. The first three were much more severe, but the fourth phase finally started to show some improvement in the state of the financial situation in the United States.
The financial crisis of 2007 was the direct result of housing bubble burst, also known as the United states subprime mortgage crisis. The United States subprime mortgage crisis was a, nationwide banking emergency, occurring between 2007-2010, which contributed to the U.S. recession of December 2007 – June 2009. Subprime lending means, “making loans to people who may have difficulty maintaining the repayment schedule, sometimes reflecting setbacks, such as unemployment, divorce, medical emergencies, etc. (investopedia.com).” Up until 2006, It was easy to have good credit because the credit (money) they obtained came from different countries. As a result, people used this credit to get expensive home loans, and this is what created an economic
The mortgage meltdown is the period where the real estate market noticed a steep increase in home foreclosures that led to a period of insanity in 2007. This meltdown was the driving factor behind the economic recession that burdened the United States’ economy in 2008-2009. To begin, the housing bubble popped. The housing bubble was the highly overvalued real estate market. The burst of this bubble, which led to the financial crisis, was a correction to the overvalued real estate market. The real estate market, like any market, is subject to the basic law of Economics: supply and demand. It began with subprime lending all over the United States that showed a jump in demand or shift in the demand curve to the right. Subprime lending is where banks grant mortgages to individuals with poor credit history. In time, the individuals defaulted of their loans or failed to make payments.
The Global Financial Crisis, also known as The Great Recession, broke out in the United States of America in the middle of 2007 and continued on until 2008. There were many factors that contributed to the cause of The Global Financial Crisis and many effects that emerged, because the impact it had on the financial system. The Global Financial Crisis started because of house market crash in 2007. There were many factors that contributed to the housing market crash in 2007. These factors included: subprime mortgages, the housing bubble, and government policies and regulations. The factors were a result of poor financial investments and high risk gambling, which slumped down interest rates and price of many assets. Government policies and regulations were made in order to attempt to solve the crises that emerged; instead the government policies made backfired and escalated the problem even further.
The 2008 financial crisis can be traced back to two factor, sub-prime mortgages and debt. Traditionally, it was considered difficult to get a mortgage if you had bad credit or did not have a steady form of income. Lenders did not want to take the risk that you might default on the loan. In the 2000s, investors in the U.S. and abroad looking for a low risk, high return investment started putting their money at the U.S. housing market. The thinking behind this was they could get a better return from the interest rates home owners paid on mortgages, than they could by investing in things like treasury bonds, which were paying extremely low interest. The global investors did not want to buy just individual mortgages. Instead, they bought
The financial crises that occurred in 2007-2008 had such a big impact on the world that it is now considered a global financial crisis (GFC) or global economic crisis. It is commonly believed that it began in July 2007 with the credit crunch; U.S. investors lost trust in the value of subprime mortgages which caused a liquidity crisis. This had the effect that the U.S. Federal Bank injected a large amount of capital into the financial markets. By September 2008, the crises had worsened as stock markets around the world became highly volatile.
They have different shapes and sizes, taking different forms during time, and usually spread across borders. Financial crises are often the product of asset and credit booms that eventually turn into busts. This booms can be identify in time but no one still has an answer of why they are allowed to continue, knowing that can rapidly become unsustainable and turn into busts or crunches. The subprime crisis: origins and evolutionThe subprime crisis is an over studied topic studied by a vast number of thinkers trying to establish the cause and to find the culpable for the greatest economic collapse since great depression. Trying to point out a single cause as the root of the crisis is however impossible as our current situation is the results of a set of political, economic and social policies. A lot of literature is dedicated to the subprime crises subject, all finding guilt in the management and moral hazard existent in the American economy. It all started on the American continent and soon became viral thru all the world’s economies. The interdependence of countries created a wave effect, so all the symptoms of the crises could be seen in different time periods, in the whole world. The growths catches a faster pace with the help of financial instruments that were created to provide liquidity to the markets. So we could see the widespread securitization of mortgages pushing the credit market to develop under
The Global financial sector had seen one of the worst Global economic meltdown of staggering proportions. The root cause of the problem was substandard loans offered to a large number of customers with inadequate income by the United States Mortgage market. This crisis was commonly known as the Sub-prime crisis. These sub-prime mortgages were packaged and traded into securitized paper investments and were sold by the major financial institutions across the globe. Subsequently, these investments became non performing assets and infected the worldwide financial markets sparing not even the biggest and established financial firms. Globalization in the early 20th century ensured that the Indian economy and the financial markets