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SEC rule temporarily limits short-selling
Bloomberg NewsThe Securities and Exchange Commission is adopting a temporary rule that will limit the ability of traders to bet on a drop in the shares of brokerage firms, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the agency's chairman, Christopher Cox, told the Senate Banking...Tags: Georgetown, Bankruptcy, Fannie Mae, Sales, Freddie Mac
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FBI looking into possible fraud by IndyMac Bancorp.
The Associated PressThe FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac Bancorp Inc. for possible fraud, an official said today of the government's latest target following the collapse of the nation's subprime mortgage market. It was not immediately clear how long the FBI's...Tags: Countrywide Financial Corp., IndyMac Bancorp Incorporated, Marketing, Corporate Crime, Mortgages
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Business Briefing: July 19, 2008
FREDDIE MAC REGISTERS TO SELL MORE SHARES | Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock. The McLean, Va., company requested, and...Tags: Republic Services Incorporated, Charity, Waste Management and Pollution Control, Prosecution, Waste
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In this economy, failure is an option
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe U.S. economy appears to be caught in a cycle of recurrent panic attacks. So many things have gone wrong, and so much anxiety has accumulated in the financial system, that nothing seems safe. As a result, no sooner has one crisis seemed to recede than...Tags: SunTrust Banks Incorporated, Mortgages, Wells Fargo & Co., Warren Buffett, Stock Broking
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Fed slaps new rules on mortgage lenders
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe Federal Reserve clamped down hard on mortgage lenders Monday, issuing rules designed to curb the sorts of risky and deceptive lending practices that helped trigger the subprime mortgage crisis. The Fed's action, although criticized by some for not...Tags: Credit Ratings, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, Housing and Urban Planning, Freddie Mac
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FBI looking into IndyMac Bancorp.
Associated Press WriterThe FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac Bancorp Inc. for possible fraud, an official said Wednesday of the government's latest target following the collapse of the nation's subprime mortgage market. It was not immediately clear how long the FBI's...Tags: Countrywide Financial Corp., IndyMac Bancorp Incorporated, Marketing, Mortgages, Corporate Crime
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U.S. exchanges may ask SEC for a break
Bloomberg NewsStock and options exchanges plan to seek an exemption for market makers to a rule aimed at preventing manipulation in shares of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 17 Wall Street firms, three people familiar with the matter said. The Securities and Exchange...Tags: Merrill Lynch & Company Inc., Buyback, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, Greenwich
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Many on Main Street can't see past gloom
MARKET BEATAre things really that bad? Is this the worst situation we've faced since the Great Depression? Is there any way out? Those questions must be asked thousands of times a day in private and public conversations about the financial system and the economy....Tags: Prices, Mortgages, Pension and Welfare, Stock Broking, Energy Saving
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Banking Woes Chill Investors
Associated PressThe bank executives who promised months ago that the worst of the financial crisis had passed are looking less and less credible to investors. And that could pose a problem as the industry releases what are expected to be dismal second-quarter earnings...Tags: Downey Financial Corporation, Wells Fargo & Co., Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Wachovia Corp., Washington Mutual Inc.
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SEC tweaks rule to calm fears
Chicago Tribune reporterThe Securities and Exchange Commission offered shelter to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other prominent companies left financially exposed by the housing crisis, with an emergency restriction Tuesday on naked short selling. In naked short selling,...Tags: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, IndyMac Bancorp Incorporated, Fannie Mae, Sales, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated
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