Tumble leading to employee cuts

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The troubled residential mortgage market continues to stumble, and employees in the sector are beginning to feel the effects.

Capital One Financial Corp. on Monday announced it would end operations at its wholesale mortgage-banking unit ? California-based GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Inc. ? and eliminate 1,900 positions, most by the end of the year.

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