While plans to privatize the mortgage giants are on the back burner, Trump administration may impose limits on how much support the mortgage giants can provide to riskier borrowers.
Category: mortgage-backed securities
Office Buildings’ Losses Are Growing, With More Pain to Come
The distress in commercial real estate is growing as some office buildings sell for much lower prices than just a few years ago.
Fed preparing to slow the pace of ‘quantitative tightening’
In addition to anticipating three rate cuts this year, Federal Reserve policymakers are considering whether to taper the pace at which they unwind the central bank’s $7 trillion balance sheet.
Housing groups urge Federal Reserve to stop hiking rates
MBA, NAR and NAHB say uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next moves is disrupting the housing sector and threatening to send the U.S. economy into a tailspin