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Freddie Mac suffers six billion dollar quarterly loss
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| Last Edited | Jason Aug 10, 2010 05:44am |
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| News Date | Monday, August 9, 2010 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Troubled US mortgage firm Freddie Mac reported Monday a second quarter net loss of six billion dollars and sought another 1.8 billion dollars from the Treasury to contain the red ink.
The government-backed company said its strategies to boost business and "sustainable homeownership" were taking hold but cited high unemployment posing "very real challenges" for the already embattled housing market.
Freddie Mac suffered a 6.009 billion dollar net loss attributable to common stockholders in the April-June period from a loss of 7.980 billion dollars in the first quarter and 840 million dollars in the year ago period.
"We recognize that high unemployment and other factors still pose very real challenges for the housing market," said Freddie Mac chief executive Charles Haldeman.
"With that in mind, we continue to focus on the quality of the new business we are adding to our book to be responsible stewards of taxpayer funds as we support the nation's housing market."
Freddie Mac and its twin state-backed mortgage firm Fannie Mae have been riddled with massive losses from loans they acquired during a home mortgage meltdown that plunged the US into a brutal recession in December 2007. |
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