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Small-cap value is interesting again.

A congressional report out today lays almost all of the blame on the financial crisis at the feet of Fannie Mae (FNM) Freddie Mac (FRE) and those that fostered their growth and “mission.”From CNSNews.com: "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the chief culprits in the housing crisis because they encouraged people who could not afford payments to borrow money according to a congressional report released Tuesday. "The claims in the report have long been advanced by conservatives who argue that the Community Reinvestment Act and other federal programs fed the housing bubble that burst in 2007 and led to ...

All you have to do is drop the sub.

Don't take your eye off your money market mutual fund.

Reality shows that mortgage modifications are a joke.

The FHFA released its five-year plan today. There are no surprises in this report. There are no innovative plans to change the troubled mortgage giants FNM and FRE. The five-year plan by FHFA calls for them to do what they have been doing for the past year as FHFA and for the past decade as OFHEO. Not much in the way of supervision or control. Just business as usual. The primary goal set forth by FHFA is as follows: <img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;"[More...]

Recently, the mortgage agency Fannie Mae (FNM) - the Federal National Mortgage Association - announced that it would be making some changes to its Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). FNM has now provided information that permits refinancing of existing Fannie Mae loans with up to 125% loan-to-value (LTV) available for delivery ...

There has been a lot of recent chatter along the lines of Bill Miller is back in the WSJ, Investor’s Business Daily, Bloomberg, etc. This turns out to be a simple case of bad mathematical analysis — like declaring Fannie Mae (FNM), AIG or Citibank (C) buy & hold owners were back because they were up [...]

There has been a lot of recent chatter along the lines of Bill Miller is back in the WSJ, Investor’s Business Daily, Bloomberg, etc. This turns out to be a simple case of bad mathematical analysis — like declaring Fannie Mae (FNM), AIG or Citibank (C) buy & hold owners were back because they were up [...]

Just as the authorities were touting the “end of the financial crisis,” all heck has broken loose again … We have a new surge in unemployment, and even without counting those who are excluded from the official numbers, 14.7 million are now jobless, the most since records dating back to ...

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - 2008 Year End Wrap-Up

Schaeffer's Equities Analyst Colleen S. King a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Schaeffer's analyst Colleen S. King takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

 Here’s a handy table (for your printing pleasure) that shows what percentage gain you need to get on your investments to get back to where you were before a certain percentage loss. So for example, the S&P 500 index is down about 40% year to date. Looking down the table, you’ll see that we’d need [...]

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street