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 ...

The newly confirmed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said he will not lower the conforming loan limit, or the ...

Shares in Fannie Mae, or Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie Mac, also known as Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp, jumped 41.5% and 40.9%, respectively, by approximately 3:15 p.m. ET.

Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , the mortgage giants under U.S. government control since 2008, surged to multi-year highs on Friday after federal agencies revealed a framework for their ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, led by its director, William Pulte, ousted 14 members of the boards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a surprising move that was disclosed in regulatory filings ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been under federal control since the 2008 financial crisis, and attempts to release them have been unsuccessful, The Wall Street Journal reported. Skeptics have ...

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 ...

Taking the two mortgage giants public may be challenging, said Lori Goodman, a fellow at the Urban Institute, who has studied the history of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Together, Fannie and ...