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Key US lenders to face new curbs

06-Sep-2008
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The bottom has fallen out of the US housing market The US government plans to put Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae under strict federal control in a further attempt to rescue the two mortgage giants, US media say. Under the plan, the government-backed private firms would be placed under a legal status known as conservatorship. Top executives could be removed. Together the firms hold or guarantee half the country's... [read full story]                    

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