Ashford Hospitality Trust, a real estate investment trust based in Dallas, has priced a follow-on public offering of 42.5 million shares of common stock at $11.75 per share.Wachovia Securities, Merrill Lynch & Co., and Morgan Stanley & Co. acted as the joint book-running managers of the offering. The underwriters were granted an option to buy up to 6.375 million additional shares to cover any overallotments. The REIT can be found online at http://www.ahtreit.com.
The national delinquency rate rose 15 basis points to 3.5% last month due to a calendar anomaly, marking a 4.5% month-over-month incline and 9.4% annual change.
ICE launched a fraud detection tool for underwriters, Newrez partnered with Matic and Rate announced a free home equity monitoring tool this month.
Nearly one-third of states now have official nonbank standards for liquidity, capital and corporate governance that firms over a certain threshold must meet.
KBW now rates UWM as outperform, and BTIG calls the stock a buy, but both cite high leverage levels and industry macro trends depressing its stock price.
If approved, the deal can provide relief for the approximately 662,000 individuals affected by an incident at the mortgage vendor last November.
Properties outside of the 100-year flood zone exposed to $375 billion to $1 trillion in losses, Moodys reports
