(update: clarification on Alt-A)
Countrywide Financial said today it has cut about 500 jobs recently to align costs with a drop in loan production, especially to subprime borrowers. None of the job cuts were in Orange County.
It cut staff at retail unit Full Spectrum Lending, which does prime, Alt-A and subprime loans, and in a subprime [...]
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