Corporate homebuying continues to climb. Institutional investors bought 15 percent of U.S. homes for sale in the first quarter of 2021, which climbed to nearly 27 percent by early 2025. In some ...

S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU25) are trending up +0.16% this morning as investors look past U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the dominant companies in U.S. housing finance, which is the biggest credit market after government debt. They are huge, with combined assets totaling $7.8 trillion.

When it comes to housing finance reform, few if any topics are more important than the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs – which underpin ...

In Virginia, the state health department laid off or froze contracts for 530 workers, including 13 full-time employees, blaming the federal cuts. Minnesota let go of 170 employees, citing the same ...

One of the chief concerns of taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac private is how it would influence mortgage rates and could increase their costs. President Donald Trump’s promise of an implicit ...

The ensuing mortgage-market meltdown led to a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which placed them into what’s known as “conservatorship,” an arrangement giving the federal government ...

I will be speaking with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, among others, and will be making a decision in ...

President Trump said again Tuesday he's working to take mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public, winding down 17 years of federal control over two central parts of the U.S. housing ...

A collapsing bond market is what led to the 2008 government takeover, yet even before then, Fannie and Freddie had never been fully private. Congress created Fannie Mae in 1938 amid the Great ...

Trump's comments on taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public come as fears over the federal deficit continue to grow. The president is pushing major legislation through Congress that would add ...