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Credit Suisse to Close Mortgage Origination Unit

October 14, 2011
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) plans to shut its unit for originating commercial mortgages that are packaged into bonds.  CS hasn’t offered a deal since sales revived in 2009 because price declines have eroded profit margins on new sales.  About 50 jobs will be eliminated;  affected employed were informed yesterday. The extra yield investors demand to hold top-ranked commercial-mortgage bonds rather than Treasuries reached the highest in 20 months last week.  Spreads soared to 323 basis points, or 3.23%, on 10/4, the most since February 2010, before narrowing to 317 yesterday.   [Bloomberg, 10/13/11]