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  2. What are mortgage-backed securities? - AOL

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    The Federal Reserve can buy and sell mortgage-backed securities as instructed by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). These actions can stimulate the economy or slow it, helping the Fed to ...

  3. Federal Reserve responses to the subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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    In March 2009, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to increase the size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet further by purchasing up to an additional $750 billion of government-sponsored agency mortgage-backed securities, bringing its total purchases of these securities to up to $1.25 trillion during 2009, and to increase its ...

  4. Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Reserve purchases of $24 billion in GSE debt. Treasury Department purchases of $14 billion in GSE stock (out of a potential $200 billion). Treasury Department purchases of $71 billion in mortgage backed securities; Federal Reserve extension of primary credit rate for loans to the GSEs

  5. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage bond is a bond backed by a pool of mortgages on a real estate asset such as a house. More generally, bonds which are secured by the pledge of specific assets are called mortgage bonds. Mortgage bonds can pay interest in either monthly, quarterly or semiannual periods. The prevalence of mortgage bonds is commonly credited to Mike Vranos.

  6. The little-known factor that could help mortgage rates go lower

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    Instead, spreads widened because the biggest single buyer of mortgages, the Federal Reserve, effectively left the market. ... There are other big buyers of mortgage-backed securities, like banks ...

  7. Bonds backed by commercial mortgages are a 'disaster ... - AOL

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    Devaney, whose fund was pummeled during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, said he saw more trouble ahead for commercial mortgage-backed securities, ... according to Federal Reserve data.