Financial writer discusses potential privatization and restructuring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under Trump administration, favoring preferred shares.

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The economy and the markets are complex, and the only way to understand them is to consider more than a few metrics as you ...

Investors have struggled to navigate the election, underlining the difficulty Wall Street so often has with politics.

Shares slip after a run-up that followed December disclosure of Pershing Square chief’s plan to end government ...

Cement your place in history as the “Art of the Deal” president with your biggest deal ever. Hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman have built huge stakes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac betting the ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate Bill Pulte to be the next director of the Federal ...

Mortgage rates topped 7% this week, a key psychological threshold, in a sign of the US housing market’s unrelenting ...

Freddie Mac has hired Craig Phillips, a former Treasury Department official under the first Trump administration, as ...

Palantir was a huge winner in 2024, but MicroStrategy delivered an even greater return. Wall Street is decidedly bullish about MicroStrategy this year but bearish about Palantir. Analysts like ...