Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac supposedly owe Florida taxpayers some money, and authorities say it's time to collect. Officials in Hernando County, Fl...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must do a better job limiting legal expenses paid by the two mortgage giant...
It's been a bad month for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced last week that it was suing half a dozen for...
Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB), the largest sources of U.S. housing finance, both said on Tuesday they would relieve lenders from ...
By Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is considering unveiling new plans next week to revive the ailing housing market a...
Taxpayer aid to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will reach $224 billion by the end of 2012, of which $55 billion will be returned in dividends to the U.S. ...
Along with other community and housing groups, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition has been pushing the White House and Congress to require ...
NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Costs to "resolve" U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and capitalize a new entity to replace their r...
Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is abou...
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest banks have an obligation to pay some of the cost for bailing out mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac be...
WASHINGTON — The call from business for less government has a notable exception: the mortgage market. The Obama administration invited banking ...
NEW YORK — Government-sponsored mortgage purchasers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to delist their shares from the New York Stock Exchange. The ...
We agree completely with the administration's approach -- actually, with Elizabeth Warren's approach -- to consumer protection. (We make this clear i...
WASHINGTON — Fannie Mae needs another $15 billion in federal assistance, bringing its total to more than $75 billion. And worse, the mortgage fi...
Seventeen months and $110 billion later, the U.S. government's enormous investment in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has turned the two firms into semi-pe...
Taxpayer money shouldn't be used to back some $6 trillion in home mortgages if there is no inspector general keeping watch over those funds, the ranki...
NEW YORK — The government has handed its ATM card to beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury Department said Thurs...
There is no independent auditor overseeing the federal agency responsible for some $6 trillion in home mortgages, because the Department of Justice's ...
Those who assumed that the recent round of TARP repayments by Citigroup and Wells Fargo signaled an end to the bailout era may want to think again. ...
A bipartisan foursome in the House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday that would require the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency...
Facing an array of more immediate financial problems, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac towards the bottom of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from th...
The Obama administration launched a broad government effort this week to overhaul mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and is considering splitt...
The first of the Bush administration's major financial takeovers is poised to get more expensive as mounting troubles in the credit and housing market...
