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...Odey Asset Management responded to questions from the FT via Duncan Lamont, a consultant at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys....
...Doug Duncan, chief economist at Freddie Mac’s sister company, Fannie Mae, said that given the big drop in US Treasury yields, mortgage rates had more room to fall....
...Doug Duncan, Fannie’s chief economist, said on Wednesday in a statement accompanying its latest mortgage lender sentiment study: “As lenders face a more competitive market for loan volume, it’s not uncommon...
...The most entertaining and moving strand tells the story of Duncan, a young man who spites his father by using his inheritance to open the “Big Gay bookshop”....
...But increased ranges had prompted a higher level of returns and increased discounting, according to Freddie George, analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald....
...Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage company, said in many cases the “lethargy” of homeowners could be explained by worries about losing their jobs and not wanting to...
...After hitting its lowest level since the 1950s at 3.49 per cent late in July, the long-term mortgage rate now stands at about 3.55 per cent, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac....
...Lindsay Duncan normally has poise and mystique in abundance, and so takes equal delight in both grossly parodying them in a husky Dietrich baritone and throwing them to the four winds in the vigorous family...
...He warned that the litany of policy and regulatory changes under way and questions over the fate of Fannie and its rival Freddie Mac are likely to slow both the economic and housing recovery....
...Then the debt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “became too politically complicated for many (foreign) reserve managers to continue buying,” he said....
...With their implicit government guarantees , agencies like Freddie and Fannie were that next best thing....
...Between unnaturally depressed interest rates and the buying spree by Fannie and Freddie, US property prices surged. The US housing bubble followed the ill-fated Nasdaq bubble....
...Bring back the link between gold and the dollar Richard Duncan, author of the Dollar Crisis, writes: The events of September 2008 — the nationalisation of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG; the disappearance...
...Meanwhile, the Fed has been panicked into an aggressive round of interest rate cuts, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US government-sponsored mortgage lenders, have expanded their balance sheets at an unprecedented...
...Companies must have a much broader plan,” says Duncan Smith, head of European equity syndicate execution at Lehman Brothers....
...There was a moment in Lahore on Friday when Kamran Akmal, a 23-year-old wicket-keeper with a modest batting average, whacked Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff for a straight six....
...Richard Duncan, author of the book The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, says the fall in the US fiscal deficit last year was significant....
...CAROLINE MCATEER now concentrates on Freddie Ljungberg’s PR. Back to Creative 50 index...
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