Let’s specifically look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two privately owned but government-created housing finance institutions (also known as government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs). Fannie and Freddiereceivedgiant bailoutsduring the crisis, but they weren’t shut down. Instead, they have ...
FBR Capital Markets analyst Paul Miller said despite a recent run-up in the stock prices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage finance companies have no fundamental value. Robert W. Baird analyst Christopher J. Raymond said more potential manufacturing delays could cut ...
Freddie Mac (FMCC) were the big winners among major financial names, on an otherwise weak day for the stock market. Shares of Fannie Mae were up 15% to close at $2.10, while Freddie Mac was up 20% to close at $2.00. The two mortgage giants together are known as the government-sp...
Despite the run-up in GSE shares, KBW analyst Bose George still believes that non-government shareholders will be left out in the cold.
Posner spent close to two decades as a Wall Street analyst, tracking the so-called "specialty finance" sector, which included controversial companies such as Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CIT, and MasterCard-many of wh... KA Posner - Columbia University Press 被引量: 5发表: 2010年 ...
Investors in mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have watched those stocks more than double in 2024 amid hopes that President-elect Donald Trump would end the federal government’s conservatorship of the companies when he assumes office. Fannie FNMA and Freddie FMCC shar...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began reporting loan-level credit performance data in 2013 at the direction of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The stated purpose of releasing the data was to “increase transparency, which helps investors build more accurate credit performance mo...
Elias Yannopoulous, Quantitative Analyst Brock Lacy, Quantitative Analyst Footnotes Reference to “In Closing: What Were They Thinking” in the September. 2015 issue of the Insight & Outlook Reference to “Insight: Are House Prices Too High in Your Neighborhood?” in the August 2015 issue of th...
The article highlights the financial condition of the shares of Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) in the U.S. According to the author, analyst reports indicate that mortgage finance giants may be forced to raise as much as $75 billion in additional capital after a big sell-off on ...
WASHINGTON -- The simmering debate over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that help finance home loans, is heating up again, this time over the companies' disclosure policies and exemptions from securities rules.Banks and some lawmakers have long complained that Fannie ...