It could have widespread effects through the housing, banking, and bond markets. Hedge fund managers like Bill Ackman have ...

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is stoking new speculation that the Trump administration could end one of the oldest fights on Wall Street by loosening the federal government’s grip over Freddie Mac ...

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

Ackman recently took activist investing to an even higher level. He wants -- and expects -- President-elect Donald Trump to ...

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

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Investors have struggled to navigate the election, underlining the difficulty Wall Street so often has ... (commonly known as Freddie Mac) are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).

Craig Phillips worked on early efforts to move the government-sponsored enterprises toward a conservatorship exit during the ...

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

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

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae both play a central role ... Ackman is among the prominent Wall Street investors who long ago wagered that the companies would eventually be returned to private control ...