Boston Globe - In recent weeks, as residential foreclosures have mounted and bonds backed by high risk mortgages have become worthless, investors stopped stop buying mortgage-backed bonds. "Culminating two weeks ago, you could not get a commercial real estate loan ...

ABN Amro Drops as Market Turmoil Raises Doubt on Bids (Update3)
Bloomberg - ... new developments in the offer process,'' adding that the bank has ``no significant exposure'' to the U.S. subprime mortgage ... Fortis plans to pay 24 billion euros for ABN Amro's Dutch retail and commercial banks and its asset-management and private ...