A rise in mortgage interest rates has led to a decline in people applying for home loans and homeowners refinancing.

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell this week to 6.74%, according to the latest Freddie Mac data released on ...

Comments by Bill Pulte, director of the agency that oversees the mortgage giants, suggest that releasing them from ...

The Trump Administration is seriously considering privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s long past time that it did ...

Shares of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTC:FMCC) fell 7% in Friday trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte indicated the companies ...

Former Fed chairs, foreign investors, and Wall Street analysts responded to President Trump's growing economic influence this ...

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today posted to its website its Monthly Volume Summary for June 2025, which provides information on ...

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A group of Democratic senators are probing the FHFA director's plan to allow Fannie and Freddie to count crypto as an asset ...

Ackman supports restructuring GSEs' capital requirements, citing outdated rules. Treasury Secretary Bessent proposes reforms ...

Given FHFA Director Bill Pulte's history of making regulatory pronouncements via X, some theorize the release of Fannie Mae ...

The U.S. government could profit from its stake in Fannie and Freddie, but only if the mortgage giants were run through ...