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Treasury Seen Set to Speak on Mortgage Firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. Treasury Department will issue a statement on Sunday expressing support for beleaguered mortgage finance lenders Freddie Mac FRE and Fannie Mae FNM, a source familiar with the matter said. The two shareholder-owned but government-sponsored companies have been under mounting...
Tags: U.S. Department Of Treasury, Government, Financial Accounting, Vertical Industries, Finance, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Statement
News items 2008-07-13
Goldman: No Turning Point For U.S. Housing From GSEs Plan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A major U.S. government plan to shore up mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE will not revive the ailing U.S. housing market yet, wrote Goldman Sachs economists in a research note dated Sunday. "Ultimately, we...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Goldman Sachs & Co., trough, interest rate, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., performance, U.S., bank
News items 2008-07-14
Treasury May Support GSEs With Equity Stake
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Sunday may say it is prepared to take an equity stake in troubled mortgage financiers Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE if requested, sources close to talks about the issue said. Under the plan being...
Tags: Investment, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, U.S. Department of Treasury, equity stake, equity, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, Thomson Reuters Corp., shareholder
News items 2008-07-13
Treasury to Make Statement on Fannie, Freddie: Source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department will issue a statement on Sunday expressing support for beleaguered mortgage finance lenders Freddie Mac FRE and Fannie Mae FNM, a source familiar with the matter said. The two shareholder-owned but government-sponsored companies have...
Tags: Vertical industries, Financial accounting, U.S. Department of Treasury, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Washington, financial market, Thomson Reuters Corp., government, shareholder, financial
News items 2008-07-13
U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)
This article is about the bond related to inflation concept. A new age dawned in the U.S. capital markets on Wednesday, January 29, 1997. The United States Treasury made its first issue of an inflation-linked bond, the 3.375% of 2007. This bond increases its principal by the changes in...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, inflation, bond, principal, auction, consumer price index, payment, security
White papers
An Investor's Guide to U.S. Treasury Securities
U.S. Treasury securities?such as bills, notes and bonds?are debt obligations of the U.S. government. When an investor buys a Treasury security, he is lending money to the federal government for a specified period of time. Because these debt obligations are backed by the full faith and credit" of the government,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Treasury, tax, security
White papers 2003-11-25
Are TIPS Really Tax Disadvantaged? Rethinking The Tax Treatment Of U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Securities
In 1997, the U.S. Treasury introduced Inflation Indexed or Protected Securities with substantial promotional fanfare. Yet, due in part to what some in the finance profession have described as a “tax disadvantage” placed upon TIPS, many are questioning whether they should appeal to a wide audience. Some, in fact,...
Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Texas Tech University, U.S. Department of Treasury, tax, valuation, inflation, finance, security
White papers 2003-05-01
New Interim Guidance Issued By Department Of Treasury On Terrorism Risk Insurance Act
The articles defines the legislation the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002. This historic legislation provides a federal backstop for terrorism insurance. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act provides that under certain circumstances after an insurance company has paid an amount of claims from terrorist events the government. An “act of...
Tags: Regulations, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, terrorism, U.S. Department of Treasury, insurance company, terrorism insurance, homeland security, compliance, insurance
White papers 2003-02-01
U.S. Treasury Securities
U.S. Treasury securities—such as bills, notes and bonds—are debt obligations of the U.S. government. When one buy a Treasury security, one are lending money to the federal government for a specified period of time. Because these debt obligations are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the government, and...
Tags: Investment, U.S. Department of Treasury, bond, interest rate, security, tax
White papers 2003-01-01
Compliance Programs for Unregistered Investment Companies
The Patriot Act enhances the powers of the federal government and law enforcement organizations to combat money laundering and terrorism. The new law is very broad and covers not only traditional financial institutions, but also non-bank financial institutions. On September 18, 2002, the U.S. Department of Treasury released its Notice...
Tags: Financial services, Financial accounting, Regulations, U.S. Department of Treasury, financial company, compliance, USA PATRIOT Act, terrorism, financial, audit, training
White papers 2003-01-01
Short-Term Fund - Bond Basics
This article explains short-term cash needs, which is to be readily available, so it is usually invested in short-term, liquid assets. Money market, itself, refers to the short-maturity segment of the fixed-income marketplace, where government agencies and corporations raise short-term funds. It is generally distinguished from the long-term fixed -income...
Tags: Investment, bond, U.S. Department of Treasury, commercial paper, municipal bond, capital market, security, income, asset, agency
White papers 2002-09-01
The Flight-to-Liquidity Premium in U.S. Treasury Bond Prices
This paper examines whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of bonds issued by Refcorp, a U.S. Government agency. As these bonds are affected, they have the same credit as Treasury bonds. A strong evidence that this liquidity premium is related to...
Tags: Investment, University of California at Los Angeles, bond, consumer confidence, mutual fund, liquidity, equity, agency
White papers 2001-05-01

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Avineon Wins Three-Year Contract with IRS for Systems Engineering and Technical Support Services
Company awarded $7.8 million task order to support Modernization and Information Technology Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Avineon, Inc. (http://www.avineon.com/), a successful provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, today announced the U.S. Department of Treasury's Internal Revenue Service IRS has awarded the...
Articles 2008-07-15
Minority Real Estate Trade Groups Back Fed & Treasury Department's Action To Fortify Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
WASHINGTON -- Hispanic, Asian and African American real estate professionals issued a joint statement of endorsement today for the actions of the Federal Reserve Board and U.S. Treasury Department to bolster support for Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Multicultural Coalition of 70,000 combined members of the...
Articles 2008-07-14
U.S. Department of the Treasury Seized & Forfeited Property Auction July 30, 2008 - Miami, FL
MIAMI, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and forfeited property on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Other agencies that are participating include: U.S. Customs & Border Protection Immigration & Customs Enforcement...
Articles 2008-07-14
Statement by Richard F. Syron, Chairman and CEO of Freddie Mac, July 13, 2008
MCLEAN, Va., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- We are heartened by today's announcement and the steps outlined by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board. This affirmation of the important role of the GSEs, and that we should continue to operate as shareholder-owned companies, should...
Articles 2008-07-13
Wachovia Names Robert K. Steel CEO and President
Wachovia provides update on expected second quarter results CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wachovia's Board of Directors announced today that it has appointed Robert K. Steel, 56, who most recently served as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance for the U.S. Department of Treasury, as the company's...
Articles 2008-07-09
Former Chief Architect Beverly Hacker Joins Citizant's EA Group
Recognized Enterprise Architect and 30-Year Government Veteran Brings Expertise to Growing EA Practice CHANTILLY, Va., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizant, one of the Washington region's leading providers of government professional technical solutions, today announced that Beverly Hacker, former Chief Architect at the U.S. Departments of Treasury and...
Articles 2008-07-02
Assessing the landscape of payments fraud
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will host its eighth payments conference on June 5-6, 2008. The conference will highlight threats to the security of the payments system and explore solutions to those challenges. This article previews issues that will be covered at the conference. One of...
Articles 2008-07-01
Letters to the editor
Drill offshore Would this Congress do anything to change the high price of crude oil and the low value of the dollar if they could? They could have started to do something on June 10 by passing the American Energy Production Act. It was defeated, primarily by...
Articles 2008-06-26
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