Fannie to Sell $5 Bln in Preferred Stock
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Fannie Mae FNM.N, the embattled U.S.  home funding company, on Wednesday said it agreed to sell $5  billion worth of non-cumulative preferred stock in two  placements to certain institutional buyers in an effort to meet  higher capitalization standards.
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U.S. mortgage finance giant Fannie  Mae FNM.N, which on Tuesday removed two top executives over  major accounting problems, said on Thursday its regulator has  approved a December preferred stock dividend.
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Bank of Montreal, Canada&#39;s fifth largest bank, said Wednesday it plans to buy privately held Mercantile Bancorp Inc., as well as the stock of Lake Commercial Corp.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on Tuesday that its board was prepared to recommend that its shareholders accept a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. .
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The company, battered by the subprime crisis, said it would sell a $5 billion stake to a Chinese investment fund.
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Fannie Mae, US largest mortgage provider, has announced Thursday that its regulator approved a December preferred stock dividend that could assist shore up the mortgage leader&#39;s capital levels.
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Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest buyer of mortgages, said yesterday that it agreed to sell $5 billion of preferred stock to large institutional investors in a rush to meet its regulator&#39;s minimum capital requirements.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved rules yesterday that will allow members of the American Stock Exchange to repurchase the market from the NASD, ending five years of ownership marked by profit declines.
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Dow Jones & Co.&#39;s board and Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. have completed talks on a $5 billion  buyout of Dow Jones and are expected to announce a deal next  week, London&#39;s The Business weekly magazine reported on Friday.
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Station Casinos Inc.  has accepted a revised buyout offer valued at about $5.5 billion from a group that includes the company's founding family and real-estate firm Colony Capital LLC, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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ATLANTA -- The Home Depot Inc. has tentatively agreed to sell its wholesale distribution business to a group of private equity firms for $8.5 billion, or $1.8 billion less than originally planned, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Mortgage giant Fannie Mae&#39;s shares fell more than 5 percent early Wednesday after a government report blasted the company&#39;s accounting practices and questioned the reporting of its past earnings.
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The hedge fund Fortress Investment Group is said to be considering an initial public offering that could value the company from $5 billion to $7 billion.
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WASHINGTON -- In a deal with the government, the mortgage company Fannie Mae has agreed to forfeit $7.5 million after being accused of accepting money it knew had been lost by a federal agency in a fraud scheme.
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Treasury prices closed with light gains Tuesday, after homebuilder Lennar Corp. reported a sharply higher than projected loss and a national report showed existing home sales at a five-year low in August.
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The downgrade, which affects some $4bn of preferred stock, will make it more expensive for Fannie to raise money in the capital markets if it sells preferred stock to help meet its new capital requirements.
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WASHINGTON - Shifting course, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson planned to tell Congress that the Bush administration would consider allowing the big mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to temporarily buy, bundle, and sell as securities loans exceeding $417,000.