The subprime meltdown includes the economic and market fallout following the housing boom and bust from 2007 to 2009.

The subprime mortgage crisis was the collective creation of the world's central banks, homeowners, lenders, credit rating agencies, underwriters, and investors.

The meltdown of the subprime mortgage market in 2007 and 2008 led to the Great Recession. Learn more about the factors that caused the financial crisis.

A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a complex financial product backed by a pool of loans and other assets and sold to institutional investors.

The stock market and housing market crashes of 2008 trace their origins to the unprecedented growth of the subprime mortgage market that began in 1999. Fannie ...

In the early and mid-2000s, high-risk mortgages became available from lenders who funded mortgages by repackaging them into pools that were sold to investors.

The subprime market is the segment of the financing business that relates to loans made to people or businesses who pose a greater risk of default.

If the mortgage loans in the CDO were made to borrowers with less than stellar credit or no credit history, they're called subprime mortgages. Although the term ...