MBS

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk revealed that both Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. President Donald Trump were impressed by the company’s Optimus humanoid robot during a demonstration in Riyadh, where the robot danced to “YMCA.” What Happened: “We just...

Investors who remember the role various real estate-related securities played in global financial crisis may be skittish about embracing an exchanged-traded fund dedicated to mortgage-backed securities, but some funds dedicated to this asset class are relatively low risk and offer investors an...

Former Bear Stearns mortgage-backed securities (MBS) trader Perry Rahbar recently wrote about the danger of financial innovation without transparency. According to Rahbar, innovation without transparency was the true underlying cause of the Financial Crisis. Rahbar argued that the MBS market itself...

The bursting of the housing bubble that led to the Financial Crisis of 2008–2009 made the world acutely aware of the size and potential impact of the asset-backed securities (ABS) market. At the height of the bubble, the mortgage-backed security (MBS) market alone grew to nearly $2 trillion...