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November 11th, 2008

Mortgage Lenders To The Rescue…For Who?

Citigroup has created the Citi Homeowner Assistance program to help mortgage holders avoid foreclosure.
Citi is not the first and will not be the last bank to announce homeowner relief efforts.  Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase have already taken recent measures to spare homeowners from foreclosures.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will release details of their […]

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September 25th, 2008

What’s behind the steep climb for Fannie and Freddie?

I have been watching Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for quite sometime.  Last night, I saw a clip of Jim Cramer talking about the recent rise in these two stocks and he was pretty skeptical.  Understandably so.The short sale ban has aided them tremendously, but both stocks have seen a meteoric rise in the past […]

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September 8th, 2008

Freddie and Fannie dabble in penny stock territory

This morning’s first half hour of trading was a wild ride. 
I watched shares of Freddie Mac dip to $0.88 and rise to $1.63 within a 10 -15 minute window.  It is easy to say I should have bought and quickly sold at the above prices.  But, as the saying goes…shoulda, woulda, coulda.
Hindsight is 20/20.  I […]

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September 7th, 2008

It’s official: Government takes over Fannie and Freddie

On Friday night, news broke that the government was finalizing the details of its takeover plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Treasury spokeswoman, Brookly McLaughlin’s response to the news: “We are not going to comment on rumors.”
The feds waited until Sunday morning to announce that alas, the rumors are true: the government is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie […]

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September 5th, 2008

Bailout report sends Fannie and Freddie down 20% in after-hours

Here we go again with the after hours trading!
Shares of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fell in excess of 20 percent after the market closed.  The drop came after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Treasury Department has nearly finalized plans to inject capital into Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Both GSEs have been able […]

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August 18th, 2008

Financials drag the market down with them

The Dow is down over 200 points today as concerns were raised in the financial sector regarding a government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
A report from Barron’s sent shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunging to record lows.  In response to the Barron’s article, the U.S. Treasury said it would not take the role of […]

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July 11th, 2008

Mixed opinions on Fannie and Freddie

Today, shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued their tumultuous decline, trading down in excess of 30 percent before noon.
One analyst at OptionMonster, Inc. said that shares of the two are likely worthless while analysts at Citigroup say the sell-off has been excessive.  In a speech this morning, Secretary Paulson offered little insight through a statement which said […]

By profsilver -- 5 comments

July 8th, 2008

Fannie and Freddie fall

Mondays tend to have slightly negative returns, but yesterday was extremely damaging to shares of the nation’s largest mortgage buyers: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Yesterday’s freefall was sparked by a Lehman Brothers analyst whose report claimed that both companies may need billions of dollars in new capital to comply with changes to accounting rules.
The same report also […]

By profsilver -- 5 comments