Shares of mortgage lender Fannie Mae surged 63 percent Friday after the company said it is considering a reverse-stock split to help meet New York Stock Exchange listing requirements.
Fannie’s shares also could have gotten a boost from light trading on the holiday-shortened trading day. With the market closing three hours early at 1 p.m. EST, and many traders gone for a long holiday weekend, volume was lighter than normal. Light trading volume can exacerbate market moves
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Fannie Mae, FED, Home Loans, Mortgage, Split
The Bush administration and the Federal Reserve announced on November 25 almost $800 billion dollars in additional funds to help, bail out, or otherwise prop up the financial sector, bringing to nearly $7 trillion the total sum that the federal government has thus far spent or pledged to spend in its feckless efforts to spare America’s largest corporations from insolvency. Included in the latest package is $200 billion for the purchase of securities backed by many different kinds of loans, including student, credit card, auto, and small business. Such loans have become much harder to obtain in recent months, and the Fed’s action is intended to get credit in these areas moving again.
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bailout, FED, Mortgage
