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Home loan applications continue downward dip as mortgage rates hover near 7%, leaving more homes listed for sale.
Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the ranking member of the Banking Committee, called on the Trump ...
Trump appears to be pushing forward with a plan to publicly list shares of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...
Trump’s idea to take the mortgage giants public has triggered a debate about the risks and potential benefits.
Fannie and Freddie’s job as private companies was to buy, insure and repackage mortgages, blessing them on the way with its ...
When the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September, most economists anticipated a corresponding drop in ...
The capital structures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a little complicated, but here’s roughly the situation 1: The ...
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Fannie Mae (1938) and Freddie Mac (1970) were created with the end goal of promoting homeownership across the United States.
President Donald Trump posted last week about his intent to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored entities that provide guarantees for most mortgage loans, out of federal ...
Director Bill Pulte termed “something big on mortgage fraud,” Fannie Mae said it has launched an AI-powered Crime Detection ...
The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...