23:10 : US housing regulator acted on ideology -lawmakers -
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Two Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday accused the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from blocking the firms from reducing principal on the mortgages they back for ideological reasons.
00:16 : House passes bill to put Fannie, Freddie in budget -
WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would put the cost of operations for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the federal budget in a bid to highlight the cost of ...
15:27 : Freddie Mac sells $2 billion bills at higher rates -
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Freddie Mac, the No. 2 U.S. home funding company, said on Monday it sold $2 billion in reference bills at higher rates and mixed demand compared with last week's sale of similar maturities.
08:45 : Gingrich Firm Releases One of Its Contracts With Freddie Mac -
Newt Gingrich's consulting firm yesterday released a copy of its 2006 contract with Freddie Mac, which covers just one year of his multiple years of service and documents only $300,000 of the $1.6 million he received from the mortgage ...
23:20 : Newt Gingrich's historical inconsistency on Freddie Mac -
The current GOP frontrunner has always thought organisations like Freddie Mac should be weaned off of government endorsements – except for when he didn'tConsistency is not Newt Gingrich's strong suit. To his credit, he at least seems ...
10:24 : Freddie Mac Increases Mortgage Relief for Unemployed Borrowers -
Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance firm operating under U.S. conservatorship, will let unemployed homeowners delay up to a year's worth of loan payments to help keep families in their homes.
17:14 : SEC charges ex-Fannie and Freddie chiefs -
The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged six former top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with securities fraud for allegedly misleading investors
22:37 : Fannie, Freddie loan limits to be almost unchanged -
WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said on Tuesday that the maximum size of loans the two firms can acquire will remain virtually unchanged in 2012.
17:32 : US House panel moves to block Fannie, Freddie pay -
WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would crack down on the pay packages for executives at mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
15:30 : U.S. senators move to block Fannie, Freddie bonuses -
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - In an effort to block top Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives from receiving million dollar paychecks, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators said on Wednesday they will file ...
16:23 : GSE's Continute to Feed at the Taxpayer Trough as Freddie Mac Asks for ... -
It appears people have bailout fatigue as the quarterly bailout Freddie and Fannie receive now barely registers as a blip as a news item. Six billion used to be a lot of money but in a world where the Fed injects hundreds of billions into the ...
13:36 : UPDATE 2-Freddie Mac reports loss, seeks $6.0 bln -
WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said on Thursday it will seek an additional $6 billion from U.S. taxpayers following its worst quarterly loss this year.
23:42 : Management shake-up at Freddie Mac -
Chief and chairman to go at US mortgage giant that last quarter reported a $2.1bn net loss, is dependent on hand-outs from the Treasury, and is embroiled in negotiations and lawsuits
06:33 : Pimco Says Mortgage Bonds Cheap After Slump -
Pacific Investment Management Co. says investors should buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage- backed securities that slumped in response to planned changes to the government-supported companies' refinancing rules.
20:29 : Fannie, Freddie to phase out attorney networks -
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will stop using attorney networks that were used during the so-called robo-signing scandal, the regulator for the two firms said on Tuesday.
12:08 : Stocks down as RBS faces US lawsuit -
Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) lost 10% today after it emerged that the bank is being sued by America’s Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs). The FHFA ...
18:51 : Getting to know Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can trace their roots back to the Great Depression of the 1930s, when millions of Americans struggled to get mortgages to buy their homes.
08:02 : US authorities to sue big banks over sub-prime crisis -
The agency overseeing the remains of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seeks billions of dollars in compensation from banks including Bank of America, JP Morgan and Goldman SachsUS authorities are preparing to sue more than ...