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Shareholders dumping stock amid predictions of impending $4 billion loss NEW YORK - There is rising speculation — most of it negative — about its short-term prospects, leading more investors to bail out of Lehman stock, which...
WASHINGTON — The difference a year can make. In August 2007, as financial markets began to crumble under the weight of bad mortgage loans, Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Federal Reserve's annual gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyo.,...
The stocks are swooning, but the feds are understandably in no hurry to own the whole U.S. mortgage business. The frenzied trading in shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac seems to assume the government will soon ride to the...
Jeffrey Epstein, the money manager who will soon start serving 16 months in jail for soliciting underage prostitutes, first came to the media's attention in 2002 when he used his mysteriously acquired wealth to fly some...
Struggling U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to keep operating, and recent government steps to offer them support were “appropriate,” Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Gary Stern said Wednesday.
