Federal regulators recently proposed new risk retention rules for mortgage-backed securities. The rules appear to be a major concession to the real estate......
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September 17 - News - Comments
Bond investors who use ETFs for their fixed-income investing have largely focused on just one thing lately: the losses they’ve suffered as rising......
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September 16 - News - Comments
Source: 401(K) 2012. Qualifying for a mortgage may soon become harder than it has ever been before. After eight full months of debate, it appears that......
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September 15 - News - Comments
Source: 401(K) 2012. A long-standing love affair between Federal National Mortgage Association (OTCBB:FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTCBB......
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September 15 - News - Comments
After just a few short months, megamoney manager Bruce Berkowitz is back in the news following the re-opening of his Fairholme Fund to new investors.......
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September 12 - News - Comments
As Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) struggles to recover from the financial crisis, CEO Brian Moynihan has made it clear that the big bank plans to <......
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September 3 - News - Comments
As fund closures go, Fairholme Fund’s was relatively short. After closing its doors to new investors at the beginning of March, Fairholme officially......
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August 27 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Admit it: You’ve dreamed of winning the lottery at some point in your life. Everyone knows, or at least everyone should know, that the statistical......
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August 22 - News - Comments
On this day in economic and business history… The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s had many causes, and like most financial meltdowns, it also......
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August 13 - News - Comments
In July, Freddie Mac closed a $400 million mortgage-backed bond offering of a new product called Structured Agency Credit Risk. This new product is part......
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August 5 - News - Comments
When megabanks JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) reported second-quarter earnings late last week, the effect of......
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July 22 - News - Comments
Millions of Americans lost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars of net worth during the housing bust, as the value of their homes plunged. Yet......
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July 19 - News - Comments
Homeowners have enjoyed rock-bottom mortgage rates for years now. But with the recent spike up in bond yields, mortgage rates have followed suit, climbing......
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June 29 - News - Comments
The Department of Commerce released its final figure for first-quarter GDP growth this morning, revising it downward from 2.4% to 1.8%. In a Reuters poll......
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June 26 - News - Comments
The FHFA is the Conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — two entities with an uncertain future 2013 has been a great year for most stocks. Only......
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June 11 - News - Comments
According to Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Finance, the following two stocks received the most quote page views last week. The first one won’t surprise......
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June 10 - News - Comments