Thu, Aug 13 2009, 4:45 PM
Good news on the jobs' front led to an increase in most mortgage rates for the week ended August 13 according to the latest Freddie Mac’s Primary Mort...
Thu, Aug 6 2009, 1:53 PM
After two weeks of modest increases, mortgage rates drifted down during the week ended August 6 according to results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage...
Thu, Aug 6 2009, 1:38 PM
The White House today responded to recent questions raised, among other places, by an article in today's Washington Post, about the potential phasing...
Thu, Jul 23 2009, 12:34 PM
Home buyers and refinancers waiting and hoping for a return of record low rates suffered a setback this week as fixed rates reversed a three-week down...
Thu, Jul 16 2009, 4:09 PM
According to Freddie Mac's weekly survey, mortgage rates drifted down for the third consecutive week although they remain well above the record lows e...
Thu, Jul 9 2009, 12:00 PM
Mortgage interest rates dropped again this week according to the results of Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended July 9.
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Tue, Aug 26 2008, 7:00 AM
In spite of the beating the stock market took on Monday with the Dow
Jones down 242 points and even though financial stocks were among the
biggest l...
Wed, Aug 20 2008, 7:00 AM
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said
Wednesday that now is not an "appropriate time" to close
government-sponsored Enterpr...
Tue, Aug 19 2008, 8:28 AM
Tue, Aug 19 2008, 7:00 AM
Last week former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan
strongl
y criticize...
Tue, Aug 19 2008, 7:00 AM
U.S. government-backed mortgage finance company Freddie Mac
caused ripples through the debt market on Tuesday after weak
results in a $3 billion, ...
Tue, Aug 12 2008, 7:00 AM
According the Dow Jones, Freddie Mac has announced that they will
no longer be purchasing subprime mortgages secured by
properties in the state of...
Mon, Aug 11 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking in an interview with NBC on Saturday, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson said government had no plans to inject capital into
Government...
Wed, Aug 6 2008, 7:00 AM
In a surprise move, the U.S. Treasury announced on Tuesday that it has
hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to conduct a review of
Fannie Mae and F...
Wed, Aug 6 2008, 7:00 AM
Freddie Mac released its second quarter 2008
financial statements on Wednesday revealing some staggering losses.
The nation's second largest mort...
Thu, Jul 31 2008, 7:00 AM
Freddie Mac today told mortgage servicers it was
doubling the amount of money it pays for each workout
that keeps a delinquent borrower with a Fr...
Tue, Jul 22 2008, 7:00 AM
Speaking at the New York Public Library, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are vital
to the U.S. financial sys...
Mon, Jul 14 2008, 7:00 AM
The U.S. government flew to the rescue of GSEs Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac over the weekend with Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson announcing that t...
Fri, Jul 11 2008, 7:00 AM
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...
Fri, Jul 11 2008, 7:00 AM
Releasing a statement on Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
said that the focus was to back Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "in their
current ...
Thu, Jul 10 2008, 7:00 AM
The U.S. officials may need to bail out the two government-sponsored
enterprises responsible for insuring mortgages, a former Federal Reserve
presid...
Thu, Jul 10 2008, 7:00 AM
Financial news outlet CNBC was reporting early Thursday that
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae , the two
corporations around which much of housing recov...
Tue, Apr 15 2008, 7:00 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made considerable progress towards
achieving financial stability , but more progress needs
to be made, according to...
Wed, Mar 5 2008, 8:00 AM
Mortgage rates continued to move upwards during the
week ended February 28 according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey
report released by Fredd...
Thu, Oct 25 2007, 7:00 AM
It was one of those weeks when one had to wonder if Freddie Mac and
the Mortgage Bankers Association were operating in the same universe. The
former...
Thu, May 10 2007, 7:00 AM
With the growth of house price appreciation now stalled or even
reversed, this has fueled fears that homeowners may face an inability to
withdraw eq...
Tue, Feb 27 2007, 8:00 AM
In the wake of a tough couple of weeks that have rattled the sub-prime
lending industry, Freddie Mac announced on Tuesday that it was
cracking down...
Tue, Jan 16 2007, 8:00 AM
The January 2007 Economic Outlook which is published last week by the
Office of the Chief Economist at Freddie Mac was headlined " The
Remodeled Hou...
Thu, Jan 11 2007, 8:00 AM
Freddie Mac 23rd Annual Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)
Survey released last week contained few surprises. The three
major findings were:
Thu, Nov 2 2006, 7:00 AM
Interest rates were up slightly this week according
to the Freddy Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended
October 26. The 30-year fix...
Tue, Sep 12 2006, 7:00 AM
" A Cooling Trend " was the title given to Freddie Mac's
September 2006 Economic Outlook released recently. In keeping with the
seasonal theme, the re...