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Housing giant Freddie Mac wants the greenlight to expand its already dominant footprint in the estimated $44.8 trillion U.S. housing market. Not everyone is on board.

As simplistic as the methodology is, momentum investing can generate market-beating returns. However, momentum anomalies tend to collapse when structural breaks occur in the economy.

Declining boomer ownership will free up 9.2 million homes by 2035, a Freddie Mac report found. The 32 million homes owned by boomers will drop to 23 million by 2035, when the oldest members of the gro

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) announced today that it plans to report its Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2023 financial results before the U.S. financial market

Mortgage rates have fallen for the past nine straight weeks. Mortgage applications and new home listings have simultaneously surged.

Interest rates on the most common type of U.S. home loan fell for a sixth straight week to the lowest in almost four months on the back of a bond market rally that has driven down yields on the securi

MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) announced today that it plans to report its Third Quarter 2023 financial results before the U.S. financial markets open on Wedne

The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.79% this week, continuing an upward trend that is putting further pressure on the housing market.

U.S. homes may be wildly unaffordable for first-time buyers, but mortgage bonds backed by those same properties could be dirt cheap.

Fannie Mae, or the Federal National Mortgage Association, got a boost when shareholders prevailed in a lawsuit. A federal grand jury awarded shareholders $612 million in the case.

The combined costs of a new 30-year fixed rate mortgage and a gallon of gasoline recently surged to the highest in more than two decades, according to Bespoke Investment Group.

Ratings agency Fitch on Wednesday downgraded U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) and senior unsecured debt ratings to 'AA+' from 'AAA' after

Most U.S. home loans end up in the nearly $9 trillion market for residential mortgage bonds with government backing, a critical corner of housing finance that boomed in the wake of the subprime-mortga

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) announced today that it plans to report its Second Quarter 2023 financial results before the U.S. financial markets open on Wedn

The Biden administration released new guidelines to cut back concentration in the economy. But it doesn't have a problem with federal concentration in housing finance.