#mortgage-backed-securities-mbs

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US politics
fromFast Company
3 days ago

Housing market affordability is so strained that Trump directs Fannie and Freddie to buy $200B mortgage bonds

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds to increase MBS demand and potentially lower mortgage rates and monthly payments.
Real estate
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Powell: Fed 'should have' stopped buying mortgage-backed securities sooner as the Pandemic Housing Boom raged on

Federal Reserve acknowledges pandemic-era MBS purchases may have continued too long but likely had a smaller-than-assumed effect on housing market dynamics.
Business
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

A star trader is out at $12.8 billion LMR Partners after a mortgage-backed securities trade backfires

Highly leveraged residential-MBS trades at LMR Partners caused large losses that erased over $100 million of gains and led to departure of the portfolio manager.
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