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Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Insurance Office, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Financial Stability Oversight Council and various state offices. It urged the people working within each of these government ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... CPI report - out on 27 July - confirms that inflation remains below target. US house prices The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported that the average prices of single-family homes increased by 0.2% in the month of April following an upwardly ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... better-than-expected and stronger than the previous month's gain in house prices released simultaneously the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) got no mention. We know the answer to that, don't we? It'll ruin a good story. The FHFA house price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... world's largest economy could be at risk of slipping into another recession. Also on Friday, the US Federal Housing Finance Agency filed a law suit against the nation's largest banks, along with a handful of other financial institutions and executives ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... investment - dropped by 2.6 per cent in the month. We can use "despite" too when referring to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's report showing that US house prices dropped by a bigger-than-expected 2.5 per cent in the March quarter - the 15th consecutive ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're going. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices fell by 2.4 per cent in the year to August. The S&P/Case-Shiller index showed property values ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... February and inventories are rising did not bother The Street. Neither did the 0.6 per cent fall in Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) home price index. Why? They were better than expected, that's why. The market sees what it wants to see, hear what ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... forward as the trend in house sales continues. This too is backed up by the 1.7 per cent rise in the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) housing price index in January against expectations of a 0.9 per cent fall. The report showed that prices increased ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... government sponsored enterprise (GSE) under conservatorship, and their operations regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FDHA). The details of the plan include: Access to loan facility secured against the GSE's assets. The US Treasury will ...

Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) will all take the lead role in ensuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain operational and financially stable despite ...
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