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Suicide of Freddie Mac chief not linked to federal inquiry

23.04.09
The suicide of a top banking executive at Freddie Mac is not being linked to an investigation into the mortgage giant's business practices... more

Finance chief of failed US lender ‘commits suicide’

22.04.09
A senior executive with one of the failed US mortgage lenders has reportedly committed suicide, according to police... more

US spending spree sends pound soaring against dollar

19.03.09
The dollar collapsed after traders gave the thumbs down to US Federal Reserve plans for a drastic $1 trillion spending spree to revive America’s economy... more

Freddie Mac plea for £9bn

14.11.08
Stricken US mortgage lender Freddie Mac asks for $13.8 billion of taxpayers' money after it reports record losses... more

Why Hank faces tough questions about his $700 billion bailout plan

25.09.08
Analysis: Hank Paulson is to some an unstoppable hero capable of saving his country from certain economic doom, but to others he is as an un-American leftist agent... more

Lurching towards some calm

18.09.08
It would be pleasant to think that markets move smoothly from one equilibrium position to another but they don’t... more

Mortgage chiefs to lose payouts

15.09.08
Finance: US regulators look set to bow to political and public pressure and block millions of dollars in severance payouts to the chiefs of sticken mortgage finance firms Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae... more

It's heads the bankers win, and tails we lose

11.09.08
No wonder bankers take outrageous risks. If they come off, they can go and set up their own charitable foundation, and if they fail, everyone else pays the bill... more

Obama slams deals for mortgage bosses

10.09.08
Barack Obama has turned his attention on the big pay-offs tipped for senior executives at mortgage finance giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which are being bailed out by public money... more

Meet Hank, the £110bn gambler who took on the credit crunch

10.09.08
Profile: Nationalising America's mortgage backers was a hugely bold move for a right-wing US Treasury Secretary. We may all have reason to be grateful to Hank Paulson... more

Senator attacks Freddie, Fannie as ‘house of cards’

09.09.08
The accounts at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were described as a "house of cards" by a senior US Republican senator just as the first class action was being filed... more

LSE fixes software glitch

09.09.08
Markets: The London Stock Exchange said yesterday's breakdown was down to a software fault rather than high trading volumes as it returned to business as usual... more

Wall Street and London rocket after US bailout

08.09.08
Finance: Global stock markets have roared ahead in reaction to the US bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... more

Market report: Footsie surges as banks perk up on rescue in US

08.09.08
It was inevitable the financial sector would lead the charge on the stock market today, in response to the US Government’s decision to rescue mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a cash injection in excess of £100 million... more

Paulson lets incoming president pick up bill

08.09.08
The political cycle in the United States played a key part in the decision to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with the US Treasury saying that the final fate of the pair would be determined by the next administration... more

Analysis: Cautious optimism that market is easing at last

08.09.08
Spirits were lifted in the City with a rare burst of good news after a year of almost unremitting gloom... more

Comment: Hank does it the Goldman way but the problems remain

08.09.08
Hank Paulson acted because Fannie and Freddie could not be allowed to fail... more

Freddie Mac shares plunge in Frankfurt

08.09.08
Freddie Mac shares plunged 62.5 per cent on opening in Frankfurt this morning, providing a taste of things to come this afternoon in New York... more

Morgan Stanley Fannie Mae job

06.08.08
Bank is to advise US Treasury on whether home finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need more capital... more

How the credit crunch saved Sarah from herself

31.07.08
As Sarah Skelding's situation demonstrates, the problem of the housing crisis is not the difficulty in getting mortgage finance, but the fact that houses are grossly over-priced... more

US crackdown on short selling

30.07.08
Security regulators in the US have extended an emergency rule to curb the short selling of major firms' stocks... more

Comment: Bank profits and mortgage pain

30.07.08
The worse than expected fall in profits at Lloyds TSB and heavy bad debt charge is further evidence of the scale of damage done by the credit crunch to high-street lenders... more

UK has $28bn in Fannie and Freddie

21.07.08
The search is on in the City and Mayfair for the holders of up to £15 billion of bonds held in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the distressed US mortgage giants... more

Freddie Mac plan to boost coffers with a £5bn shares sale

18.07.08
Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac is reportedly planning an ambitious share sale worth as much as £5bn to raise badly needed funds... more

America hopes it will be Super Hank to the rescue

18.07.08
As the American economy continues its steep decline and banks and other institutions fall victim to the Credit Crunch, Henry "Hank" Paulson is shaping up to be a true super-hero... more

It's time to bid farewell to Fannie and Freddie

17.07.08
You may not have heard of the Federal National Mortgage Association, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, but if you haven't heard of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nicknames for these two vast businesses, you certainly will... more

Dollar and shares dive as global worries grow

15.07.08
The dollar tanked and London plunged deeper into the bear market on growing concerns over the state of the global economy... more

Asian banks hit by debt held in mortgage giants

15.07.08
Asian stock markets dived amid the clearest signs yet of global contagion from the crisis at US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... more

A dilemma for the Fed on rescue mission

14.07.08
The dilemma faced by the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury, therefore, is not whether the agencies should be rescued, but how best to do it... more

US pondering £2,500bn 'Rock-style' bailout

11.07.08
The US government may be forced into a bailout of their two largest mortgage companies, FreddieMac and Fannie Mae... more

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