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For the third day this week the stocks of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae took a hammerin' on Wall Street and for the second day major newspapers are speculating on their survival as independent companies. On Friday The New York Times and Barons both reported that the two government sponsored enterprises...
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Congress and the Administration may be headed for a clash on yet another front - the size of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's owned portfolios. On Monday Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) introduced legislation that would provide about $72.5 billion to refinance mortgages for borrowers whose loans have or are...
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Investors in the two government sponsored enterprises ( GSEs ) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae got their hopes up early in the week based on speculations that federal regulators - specifically the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) - might allow the two mortgage giants to buy more home...
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by
Glenn Setzer
on
Fri, Aug 10 2007
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Filed under: Freddie Mac, ofheo, Fannie Mae, SEC, Federal Reserve, credit crunch, countrywide, president bush, Christopher Dodd, gse, charles schumer, subprime market