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...of a patchwork quilt, a single look represents a square of fabric, as well as a defining emotion of American fashion, while related words are written on head dresses designed by British milliner Stephen Jones...
...Do you simply track the broad index, such as the S&P 500 (a much smarter choice than the wild ride offered by the Dow Jones Industrials index) or do you back an active fund manager?...
...* This story has been amended since first publication to remove a reference to Paul Tudor Jones...
...Now, look at a true star: Fannie Mae.” The star went supernova in 2008. But it was not only Fannie that failed to live up to its billing as a safe dividend payer....
...– The WSJ again on a Fannie and Freddie endgame, and why people should be paying attention to “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s opening of the door for the first time to an explicit government guarantee...
...A legal ruling that threw out an attempt by hedge funds to force the US government to share profits made by the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with private investors damaged hedge funds that...
...This year’s event, the 19th, also featured one of the elder statesmen of the hedge fund industry, Paul Tudor Jones, who was making his Ira Sohn debut....
...The move by the FHFA, which runs both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through conservatorship, would help protect taxpayers from some losses on mortgage defaults....
...(FastFT) News Corp spins off local news titles: The group sold the 33 publications in its Dow Jones Local Media Group to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, highlighting how the newspaper industry...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was gained 0.4 per cent to 14,974.96....
...In pre-market trading, shares in BofA, the best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2012, declined 2.4 per cent....
...The Fed has said it will purchase both mortgage-backed securities issued by the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac along with government debt until there is a sustained improvement...
...Even Japan, where the Post Office is in state hands, and the US, which has Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, may fall foul of some provisions....
...The Nasdaq Composite index lost 0.1 per cent to 3,098.81, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell 0.4 per cent to 13,384.29....
...The FHA now guarantees more seriously delinquent mortgages than either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac....
...Mortgage-backed bonds trade on a lower yield than treasuries – below 2.2 per cent for a 30-year Fannie Mae bond. Back in 1985, 30-year mortgage bonds yielded 12.8 per cent....
...This anticipates further downgrades by S&P of the credit ratings of securities issued by entities linked to the US government, such as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.5 per cent to 11,124.84 and the Nasdaq was off 2 per cent at 2,538.19....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was higher by 0.8 per cent to 11,670.67 while the Nasdaq Composite was lifted 1.5 per cent to 2,691.52....
...Mr Donilon, previously at the Brookings Institution, was a senior vice-president at Fannie Mae, the government sponsored mortgage lender that was taken over by the government during the 2008 financial crisis...
...Ms Friedman said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were also continuing to test clearing through IDCC using a “shadow portfolio” of swaps....
...At midday, the S&P 500 was up 0.1 per cent at 1,116.68, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat to 10,409.08, and the Nasdaq Composite had risen 0.3 per cent to 2,312.37....
...Meanwhile, shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac surged from penny stock levels....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 10,023.42 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.3 per cent to 2,112.44....
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