Chase & Wells Fargo profiting big time from mortgage servicing

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in Mortgage Servicers

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Wells Fargo & Co. earned almost a third of its pretax quarterly profit by hedging mortgage- servicing rights, producing gains similar to those that have helped some of the biggest U.S. banks offset weaker consumer- lending businesses.

Wells Fargo’s hedges outperformed writedowns it took on the so-called MSRs by $1.5 billion and JPMorgan Chase & Co. came out ahead by $435 million. The two banks, as well as Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., wrote down MSRs by at least $5 billion in the third quarter as mortgage rates fell by about 0.26 percentage point.

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