Oil Bust Threatens CMBS in Wall Street Funded Shale Towns

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The oil glut is threatening to expose cracks in the commercial-mortgage bond market.

Nomura Holdings Inc. estimates that $16 billion in property debt that has been sold to investors as securities is vulnerable to default after crude prices plunged, posing risks for the economies of U.S. cities and towns built around the boom.