securities
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Mortgage REITs originate or buy mortgages and mortgage-backed securities, earning a profit on the difference between their borrowing costs and loan yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
China has told the country’s biggest securities firms and banks to throttle back their work on initial public offerings and focus on boosting the struggling stock market, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
That gives investors a larger outlet for selling those securities while the Federal Reserve is trying to keep financial conditions tight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Bad-faith actors sometimes accuse serious securities markets of being dressed-up gambling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Among my classmates at Harvard, the thing that bright young guys did was securities work or tax,” another white-shoe partner remembers.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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