US regulator to deepen pockets of two mortgage finance firms
Story date: 2008-02-27 02:35:00
Added on: 2008-02-29 13:32:29
Raw Story - With the increase in portfolio limits, the GSEs will be enabled to continue to offer liquidity to the secondary mortgage market and hopefully reduce mortgage rates for primary mortgage loan borrowers," said Stephen Gallagher, an analyst at Societe ...
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