New Issue-Freddie Mac sells $8 billion in bills
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Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said that it sold $3.0 billion of one-month reference bills due Nov. 2, 2004 at a stop-out rate, or lowest accepted
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities were mixed in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $20 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.480 percent, up from 2.475 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 2.710, unchanged from the previous week.
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Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is looking at new ways to hedge against more risky mortgages it will purchase to meet higher federal affordable housing goals, the company&#39;s chief executive Richard Syron said on
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.155 percent, up from 2.075 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 2.365 percent, up from 2.280 percent.
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The Treasuryâs schedule of financing this week include todayâs regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow.
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Securities regulators told Freddie Mac yesterday that they are considering bringing civil charges against the mortgage giant for allegedly manipulating its reported earnings, Freddie Mac confirmed.
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The TreasuryÂs schedule of financing this week included todayÂs regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will raise by 7.8 percent the limit on the size of single-family-home mortgages they will purchase, increasing the pool of home buyers who will qualify for lower-cost financing.
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac announced Monday that it is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others - moves that experts said should tighten the company&#39;s internal controls after an accounting scandal.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.580 percent, up from 1.515 percent last week. An additional $17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.775 percent, up from 1.750 percent.
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Mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year met the government-set goals for making home ownership affordable, but only because three unusual multibillion-dollar deals were counted toward the targets, officials said Thursday.
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The gain comes amid turmoil in the home loan market and reverses several quarterly losses for Freddie Mac, which buys mortgages and guarantees the performance of home loans.
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Freddie Mac of McLean, Va., said Friday long term mortgage rates inched higher during the week ending Dec. 2. Freddie Mac said the rate on the popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan rose to an average 5.81
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac announced Monday that it is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others - moves that experts said should tighten the company's internal controls after an accounting scandal.
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The TreasuryÂs schedule of financings this week includes todayÂs regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow.
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US mortgage lender Freddie Mac agrees to pay a $50m (Â£24.6m) penalty to settle charges that it massaged its earnings.
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Freddie Mac FRE.N, the No. 2 U.S.  mortgage finance company, said on Monday it will no longer  serve as a broker dealer in the multi-trillion-dollar mortgage  bond market, a move some said is designed to lower risk and  placate regulators.