LOS ANGELES — Countrywide Financial Corp. grew from a two-man startup in 1969 to become the nation's leading mortgage lender by deftly riding out housing boom-and-bust cycles. This time around, though ...
Countrywide Financial Corp. on Tuesday said October mortgage loan volume fell 48% from a year earlier, but credit quality has begun to stabilize as the largest U.S. mortgage lender curtails riskier ...