In the aftermath of the housing market bubble, the federal government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under a financial ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate Bill Pulte to be the next director of the Federal ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giants, could be headed for privatization under Donald Trump 's ...

Fifteen years after failing and being rescued by our federal government, our nation’s principal secondary market makers in home mortgage loans – Fannie Mae FNMA and Freddie Mac – remain in ...

Investors in mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have watched those stocks more than double in 2024 amid hopes that President-elect Donald Trump would end the federal government’s ...

Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been rising as investors bet the Trump administration will release the two mortgage giants from government control.

The conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie was initially meant to be temporary.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is stoking new speculation that the Trump administration could end one of the oldest fights on Wall Street by loosening the federal government’s grip over Freddie Mac ...

Even so, the government takeover was never ... Currently, the federal government backs all conforming mortgage loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan programs. That reduces risk, when ...

"I am confident he will get it done." The stocks of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — semi-acronyms for Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association — jumped ...