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The East Bay Business Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Officials with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Atlanta Business Chronicle (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Officials with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) on Sept. 7, in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Federal regulators on Sunday took over the failing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage companies, quasi-government entities that got into trouble with subprime lending. (FNM) (FRE)
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
"It is exactly the kind of event we warned about and tried to prevent over the years," White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "Remember that we have highlighted the systemic risk posed by Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac because of the very large role they play in housing markets and because of their business practices."
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Treasury Department said it was prepared to put up as much as $100 billion over time in each of the companies if needed to keep them from going broke, in exchange for senior preferred stock. Treasury will immediately be issued $1 billion of such stock from each company, which will pay 10 percent interest. Further purchases of preferred stock will be triggered if quarterly audits find that the companies’...
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The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Government officials have seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Washington, D.C.’s two largest companies have been taken over by the government. (FNM) (FRE)
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The South Florida Business Journal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Washington’s two largest companies have been taken over by the government. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Memphis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Officials with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) on Sept. 7, in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Dayton Business Journal (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Federal regulators on Sunday took over the failing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage companies, quasi-government entities that got into trouble with subprime lending. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Los Angeles Business (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Officials with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sept. 7, in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Washington’s two largest companies have been taken over the government. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Jacksonville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Officials with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) on Sept. 7, in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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The Houston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Government officials have seized control of embattled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in hopes of stabilizing the housing and financial markets. (FNM) (FRE)
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shugaray | yesterday
Feds Seize Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
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stockspro | 07/13/2008
Inbev, a Belgian brewing company currently has an offer on the table to take over Anheuser-Busch at $70 per share or $50 billion dollars. There probably aren't that many more companies that are more "American" than Anheuser-Busch (BUD), the maker of Budweiser and it would be a shame to see it fall into foreign ownership. As mind numbing as the $50 billion price tag sounds, if the deal goes through,...
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traderthoughts.com | 12/31/2007
Here is how TraderThoughts.com assess the US stock market of 2007 and looks forward to 2008. Very little has changed this week on the price front in the broad market. The front line indexes were largely unchanged for the week, barring Thursday's fierce sell-off partly fueled by events in Pakistan. In this relative quiet of the holiday season, investors and analysts alike are likely to be unsure of...