DALLAS, Texas 8/22/2008 10:12:29 PM
News / Finance

Beacon Equity Issues Technical Trade Alerts o Mortgage Finance Stocks : FRE, FNM, TMA, WM, BAC, WB

Today’s Trade Alerts include: Freddie Mac (FRE), Fannie Mae (FNM), Thornburg Mortgage Inc. (TMA), Washington Mutual Inc. (WM), Bank of America Corporation (BAC) and Wachovia Corporation (WB).

Freddie Mac (FRE) Trade Alert shares climbed 2.53% to $3.24 early Friday morning.  Freddie Mac engages in mortgage purchasing, credit guarantee and portfolio investment activities in the United States...

The company's executives are recently sounding out private-equity and other investors about buying its shares, although the effort faces a major hurdle, the Wall Street Journal reported

Challenged by fears of loss of investment upon a bail out of Freddie or its main rival, Fannie Mae, by the U.S. Treasury through a purchase of equity in them, senior management of Freddie has been talking with a wide array of possible investors this week, according to Freddie Mac spokesman David Palombi...”

Fannie Mae (FNM) shares slipped from yesterday’s 10.23% climb, falling less than 1% to $4.81 Friday morning.  Fannie Mae provides funds to mortgage lenders through the purchase of mortgage assets, and issues and guarantees mortgage-related securities that facilitate the flow of funds into the mortgage market in the United States

Mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are recently faced with debts, which need to be refinanced by the end of September in the amount of $225 billion.  So far, they have had little trouble persuading investors to buy debt with maturities of a year or less.  However, investors say the mood could change as long as details of any potential government bailout remain unclear

Debt investors bet the securities will get a U.S. guarantee even if shareholders are wiped out by a federal rescue of the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which own or back almost half of all outstanding U.S. mortgages…”

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