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What We're Hearing

It may not be a coincidence: the stock market is selling off yet again (reaching an 11-year low), and traders and investors in 'scratch and dent,' and non-performing loans say there's been a flood of new offerings the past few weeks. One trader, requesting anonymity, said a recent alt-A portfolio sold for about 70 cents on the dollar. Here's the kicker: the loans were performing. The lender sold the package at a loss to "free up his warehouse lines," said the trader…

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