Fannie Mae Slides on Accounting Issues
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Fannie Mae  shares fell as much as 3.5 percent on Friday, bringing losses for the week to about 16 percent, as investors grew wary of potential widespread accounting problems at the No. 1 U.S. housing finance company.
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Unlike recent financial scandals, issues raised by Fannie Mae's regulators pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 30, 2004 - Top executives of Fannie Mae are being called before Congress to explain an accounting lapse as lawmakers delve into operations of the mortgage giant that is already under investigation by federal regulators.
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US mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday the Securities and Exchange Commission had changed the status of its investigation of the company&#39;s accounting to formal from informal.
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The vaunted political and financial  skills of Fannie Mae Chief Executive Franklin Raines may not be  enough to save him professionally after a scathing regulatory  report last week detailed pervasive accounting lapses at the  mortgage finance company.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 24, 2004 - Shares of Fannie Mae fell again on Friday, capping a three-day slide of more than 13 percent, as investor concerns widened after a government regulator accused top executives
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Fannie Mae's regulator has asked the  mortgage finance company to take immediate remedial action to  correct pervasive accounting problems, agency officials said on  Thursday.
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Fannie Mae used improper accounting to manipulate its quarterly earnings reports, regulators said, touching off the mortgage finance industry's second such controversy in less than 18 months.
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Fannie Mae's regulator told Congress  on Wednesday his office was considering seeking management  changes at the mortgage finance company after finding pervasive  accounting irregularities.
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Source: Mortgage financer may be forced to keep up to $31B on hand while it fixes accounting woes. WASHINGTON  - Embattled mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae was close to a deal with regulators late
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators have raised the possibility of removing the management of mortgage giant Fannie Mae after finding accounting problems they described yesterday as more serious than those that brought the ouster of top executives at rival Freddie Mac .
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Fannie Mae (FNM:NYSE - news - research), the scandal-tainted mortgage finance firm, says it&#39;s looking at a $9 billion loss in its derivatives portfolio if regulators don&#39;t accept its accounting practices.
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Fannie Mae's board of directors met Monday to hear details about accounting problems its regulators have uncovered during a long-running review, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- After a week of auditing shocks, Fannie Mae investors face the prospect of shakeups at the mortgage giant&#39;s top levels.
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Fannie Mae&#39;s shares fell to a 13- month low yesterday, and its bonds weakened as the Justice Department considers whether to conduct a criminal investigation into accounting fraud at the largest source of US mortgage money.
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Fannie Mae used improper accounting  to steady its earnings from quarter to quarter, federal  regulators have told the top mortgage finance company, setting  the stage for the industry's second bookkeeping drama in less  than 18 months.
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Fannie Mae, the biggest provider of money for the US mortgage industry, sold $5 billion of preferred stock Wednesday after its regulator said it broke accounting rules and is &#39;&#39;significantly undercapitalized.