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

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

Collateralized debt obligations are exotic financial instruments that can be hard to understand. Learn the role they played in the 2008 financial crisis.

A synthetic CDO is a collateralized debt obligation that invests in credit default swaps or other non-cash assets to gain exposure to fixed income.

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.

The subprime market is the business of lending money to people or businesses who are at a greater risk of default on their payments.

Anytime something bad happens, it doesn't take long before people start to assign blame. It could be as simple as a bad trade or an investment that no one ...

The expansion of mortgages to high-risk borrowers, coupled with rising house prices, contributed to a period of turmoil in financial markets that lasted ...