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...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...The exhibition ends in the mid-1980s with Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems....
...Some say that Thomas was, in fact, Lillie Mae Scott, who stabbed her husband to death in Houston in 1931. Perhaps she was on the run....
...The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis, Hutchinson, RRP£12.99, 256 pages A first novel following the contrasting fortunes of the 11 children and one grandchild of Hattie Shepherd, the African-American...
...Additional reporting by Sarah O’Connor in Washington and Chris Bryant in Berlin...
...While the plan being discussed in the Senate on mortgage relief is virtually identical to the House plan, it is likely to include a measure diverting money from a new affordable housing fund at Fannie Mae...
...The reforms would refinance mortgages totalling about $300bn (€195bn, £153bn) into cheaper loans and would create a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage companies...
...OFHEO’s purchase-only house price index tracks repeat-sales of properties financed with mortgages guaranteed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-chartered mortgage agencies....
...The OFHEO index is based on prices of homes backed by mortgages guaranteed by government-chartered mortgage agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae....
...Lawmakers will continue to debate the housing measures next week, which include reforms to strengthen the regulation of government chartered mortgage agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae....
...of the negative data, the S&P homebuilder index rose 1.4 per cent on Wednesday after regulators announced plans to lift caps on the investment portfolios of government sponsored mortgage agencies Fannie Mae...
...A Barron’s report that Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage agency, could face a bail-out prompted its shares to drop 13 per cent to $19.81....
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, were downgraded from “neutral” to “sell” by Merrill Lynch....
...Sallie Mae fell 1 per cent to $19.65 after the troubled lender sold $1bn of convertible securities and $2bn of common stock to pay off sour derivative bets....
...Sallie Mae, the troubled student lender, fell 11.2 per cent to $19.65 after it said it plans to raise $2.5bn through a stock sale to help settle bad bets on its share price....
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage agencies rose 13.5 per cent to $33.50 and 14.05 per cent to $36.94 respectively. Homebuilder stocks also soared on news of the plan....
...A broader index of financial companies rose with Sallie Mae leading the way, up 7 per cent at $17.83....
...Fannie Mae, a rival mortgage agency, was down 20.9 per cent to $32.20, amid continuing worries about the way it accounts for loan losses....
...Among November’s worst performers were Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage agencies....
...Shares in rival mortgage agency Fannie Mae rose 9.9 per cent to $32.30. A host of big banking and brokerage stocks made strong gains on Wednesday....
...Fannie Mae , the government-sponsored mortgage agency, fell 7.6 per cent to $37.58, its lowest level in 10 years, amid investor doubts about the way it accounts for home loan losses....
...Shares in fellow mortgage lender Fannie Mae fell 24.8 per cent at $28.25, leaving them almost 60 per cent below their high this year....
...Sallie Mae , the student loan company, fell 10.8 per cent to $28.49 after it lowered its core earnings outlook and said a buy-out consortium led by JC Flowers was unwilling to submit a new takeover proposal...
...Among the leading fallers were Countrywide Financial, the mortgage lender, which slumped 10.5 per cent to $8.64 and the government-sponsored mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which fell 10.2 per...
...Washington Mutual slid 4.4 per cent to $20.43, Countrywide Financial fell 8.7 per cent to $12.21 and Fannie Mae , the mortgage agency, shed 10 per cent to $43.04....
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