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The cost of bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is soaring.New S&P research estimates that it will take $700 billion to bring the firms back to financial health, slightly less than the size of the...
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Apple’s (AAPL) stock price may just keep going up. New evidence indicates that, while iPod sales growth is slowing, Mac and iPhone sales could more than make up for that difference. One...
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The Treasury Department announced that it would give Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM)and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) “unlimited” financial support for the next three years, which seems like an awful lot. Some...
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Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) has a market cap of about $12 billion. At Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) that number is closer to $22 billion. Both company’s stocks are down about 70% from their 52-week highs....
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The evidence is thin, but at least it is available. Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM) could raise money on their own and without a government bail-out which would wipe out common stockholders...
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced that it is once again seeking comments on recapitalizing and perhaps conducting a public offering of stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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As PC sales begin to contract in the US, Apple (AAPL) is hoping to pick up sales overseas. If the new Gartner research on global PC sales is right, the Mac may have as much trouble in the...
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Freddie Mac’s (FRE) results undercut any hope that things at the quasi-governmental agency would get better soon. Actually, they were an indication that the Treasury will have to get into the act...
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The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: AGM), a.k.a. Farmer Mac, today raised additional capital. The capital came via a sale in a private offering of shares of non-cumulative...
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What if a Big Mac were a healthier choice than, say, a salad? Or even a better choice than 100 popular salads?
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For computer users who have $4,000 or more to spare, Apple (AAPL) will now sell a Mac Pro version with two Intel (INTC) quad-core chips. It will have about enough computing power to run the Pentagon....
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The day has come for Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM). Freddie Mac has notified the New York Stock Exchange of its intent to delist its common stock from NYSE trading. It is...
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GM (GM) cut its dividend to zero. It is a nifty way to save a lot of money and, once a company’s shares have fallen by a huge amount, investors almost expect it. Several banks like NCC (NCC)...
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Apple’s (AAPL-NASDAQ) Steve Jobs’ call for dropping DRM (digital rights management) online is something that while it sounds great, is likely not realistic. The music industry has...
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The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday released a plan to revitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored companies that hold about half the country's $11 trillion mortgage loan...
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