Hints and tips:
...People close to Marshall point out that the bid will be made through UnHerd Ventures media group, whose leadership team includes editor-in-chief Freddie Sayers....
...Now it’s £40,000,” says Frankie Batchelor of independent specialists Ghost Motors, in Kent. “Pay less than £15,000 and you’ll spend £30,000 bringing it up to scratch....
...The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.02 per cent, up from 5.89 per cent a week ago and 2.86 per cent in the same week last year, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey....
...Freddie Lee Tyson, who had congenital syphilis but never showed any symptoms, was not one of these....
...Lance Batchelor is retiring next month after six years. His departure follows a turbulent period for the company....
...“Avast” — a nautical or piratical term from the Dutch, meaning “desist you vitamin C deficient dogs”. Or Avast, an antivirus program, developed by a Czech computer company called Avast....
...Similarly, the agencies have exempted such companies if they sell a mortgage to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac....
...Now the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, is looking at opening up the market....
...Oasis has also called for the company to sell its fast-growing Batchelors soup and dried noodle business. Who wants soup when it’s 30 degrees? We’ll find out later if cool heads prevail....
...It took a long time for Airbus to take control of Bombardier of Canada’s C-Series aircraft programme, so it should not be a surprise that getting the Boeing-Embraer deal done will take a little longer....
...J F C Fuller did not invent the tank....
...private sector: (Not shown are a grab-bag of other revenue streams including fines, donations, FDIC insurance premiums, seigniorage income from the Federal Reserve, and dividends paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...The Fed now owns more than a quarter of all mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Yes, Fannie and Freddie were mismanaged in the period before the crisis....
...Together, Fannie and Freddie guarantee the bulk of US home loans and underpin the country’s system of 30-year fixed rate mortgages....
...Freddie Mac similarly rose sharply after the election before tumbling back down....
...Here’s the baseline forecast from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The portfolio of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, and Freddie Mac is expected to...
...In September 2012, the Fed began buying $40bn of mortgage bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each month....
...(Fannie and Freddie got into trouble during the crisis because they had charged insufficient g-fees during the bubble and were insufficiently capitalised to compensate for that mistake....
...import duties, to remittances paid by the Federal Reserve to the Treasury on seigniorage, to fines collected by the Justice Department, to interest paid on student loans, to profits earned by Fannie Mae and Freddie...
...Analysts express the greatest concern over suggestions that Trump might privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the groups that back most mortgages in the $10tn US mortgage market....
...It was meant to be a safe bet as most of its assets were residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Premier Foods, the UK group behind Mr Kipling cakes and Batchelors soups, has sought to reassure about the effect of the weak pound on its cost base, saying its main exposure is to the euro rather than the...
...In 2013 he sold a 60 per cent stake of the company to M & C Saatchi for £1.5m. M&C Saatchi Merlin, where Mr Thompson remains chairman and chief executive, had a turnover of £20m last year....
...He says the company’s latest guidance – which includes a warning that profits will be adversely affected in the short-term – “implies a c.10 per cent PBT [profit before tax] consensus downgrade and we expect...
International Edition