Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is stoking new speculation that the Trump administration could end one of the oldest fights on Wall Street by loosening the federal government’s grip over Freddie Mac ...

"I am confident he will get it done." The stocks of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — semi-acronyms for Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association — jumped ...

The agencies would also solicit public comments before either of the so-called "government-sponsored enterprises" is released from federal ... Donald Trump. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac shares hit ...

By Niket Nishant and Manya Saini (Reuters) -Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants under U.S. government control since 2008, surged to multi-year highs on Friday after federal ...

Fannie Mae, known formally as the Federal National Mortgage Association, was created by Congress during the Great Depression to bolster the secondary market for bank-originated mortgages and thus ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate Bill Pulte to be the next director of the Federal ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giants ... more than $300 billion of additional profits to the federal government, while removing some $8 trillion in liabilities ...

Jan 3 - Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants under U.S. government control since 2008, surged to multi-year highs on Friday after federal agencies revealed a framework for ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... on his views toward privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But last week, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency released new ...