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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... on lingering concerns about the health of the US financial system, fanned by troubles at large mortgage financiers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Local energy stocks are expected to suffer from a large dip in the oil price. On the Sydney Futures exchange ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... trade amid growing investor doubts over the effectiveness a safety net set up for mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve said Sunday that they would aid the companies if needed. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... their balance sheets as assets or liabilities, would hit the two pillars of the US housing market - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - severely, causing a knock-on effect on the capital markets. This is because the new accounting rules would force these government-sponsored ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... fell in choppy trade amid growing investor doubts that a safety net set up for mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would head off further troubles in the financial markets. The Treasury and the Federal Reserve said Sunday that they would aid ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... US stocks fell 1.1 per cent on Friday amid sustained worries over the financial health of mortgage-financing firms Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and lingering concerns about corporate earnings. Shares in the two large mortgage financing firms fell by up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... sales report from retail titan Wal-Mart had helped support the market. But concerns about the financial health of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae unsettled some investors who sold their shares in the government-chartered finance firms. The blue-chip Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... points. While many financial services companies logged steep declines during the session, government-sponsored lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were among those hardest hit. Investors are worried that the mortgage finance companies will have to sell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... Wednesday in light trading after a modest rise in consumer prices in April cooled inflation fears while Macy's Inc and Freddie Mac posted reassuring quarterly results. A milder-than-expected gain in the Consumer Price Index took the edge off fears of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... afternoon after earlier gains on news of the lifting of lending caps for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac proved short-lived. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 31.18 points, or 0.24 per cent, at 12,653.74. The Standard & ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... at calming household fears and reinstilling consumer confidence. President Bush also said that the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac housing loans regimes should be upgraded and the Federal Housing Administration modernised. "These are difficult times for many ...