Fannie Mae Will Keep More Cash on Hand
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Embattled mortgage finance company  Fannie Mae FNM.N agreed to keep billions of dollars more cash  on hand while it corrects accounting problems, its government  regulator said on Monday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. tried to calm depositors and home buyers yesterday with assurances it would continue operating in Massachusetts and nationwide, one day after a $2 billion capital infusion by Bank of America Corp.
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Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage finance company, will probably not face major business disruptions from the $9 billion write-off that federal regulators are requiring it to take, analysts and investors said yesterday.
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Commercial banks sought slightly more funds than were available Tuesday in a three-month offer of cash made under a special refinancing arrangement announced last week, the Bank of England said.
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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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The Bank of England acts to ease the credit crunch hitting financial markets, allowing banks to deposit more funds with it.
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The money is coming. Profit from where it will go.
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Federal investigations of Fannie Mae&#39;s (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) accounting could keep the top US home funding company&#39;s stock hemorrhaging, but most debt investors scent opportunity.
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December 30, 2004 - Mortgage giant Fannie Mae said Wednesday that it may sell as much as $4 billion of preferred stock to boost capital, Reuters reported.
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Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest source for home mortgage financing, said Wednesday that is is considering two placements of up to $4 billion in preferred stock to qualified institutional buyers.
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Fannie Mae, facing questions about its accounting similar to those that shook up Freddie Mac last year, has agreed to changes that will bring it in compliance with accounting standards.
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Pocket change can buy a lot on Wall Street these days.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to increase their funding of mortgages for low- and moderate-income home buyers, under a new rule the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced yesterday.
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Though Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been arguing that they should be granted authority to buy more mortgages to help ease a credit crunch, data released by the companies this week show that they haven't been using the authority they already possess.
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Under pressure from federal regulators, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has agreed to boost its reserve cushion against risk by several billion dollars and take other sweeping actions to correct what were cited as serious accounting problems, including recalculating key transactions and tightening internal controls.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday he is open to temporarily expanding Fannie Mae's  and Freddie Mac's  investments into 'jumbo' mortgages to ease housing stress, but only with stronger oversight.
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Investors shouldn't be writing off banks quite yet.