TOKYO, Sept 8 - The Nikkei average jumped 3.6 percent on Monday, its biggest percentage gain in five months, with financial issues soaring on the U.S. government's bailout of troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
TOKYO, Sept 8 - The Nikkei average gained 2.9 percent on Monday as financial issues such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group surged after the U.S. government's bailout of troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and...
TOKYO, Sept 8 - Japanese government bonds tumbled on Monday as U.S. Treasuries slid after the government took over struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
HONG KONG, Sept 8 - Asian stocks jumped nearly 3 percent and government bonds tumbled on Monday after Washington took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to save the U.S. housing market and limit the extensive damage of the financial crisis...
HONG KONG, Sept 8 - Asian stocks surged 4 percent and government bonds tumbled on Monday after Washington took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to save the U.S. housing market and limit the extensive damage of the financial crisis...
TOKYO, Sept 8 - The dollar fell against the euro but climbed on a sliding yen on Monday after the U.S. government seized control of mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to shore up the U.S. housing market and protect against more global financial turbulence...
WELLINGTON, Sep 8 - Asian shares are set to open higher on Monday after the U.S. government took control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The move was prompted by worries about the...
WASHINGTON, Sept 7 - Two veteran bankers, one from Merrill Lynch and another from U.S. Bancorp <USB.N>, will be the new CEOs of mortgage titans Fannie Mae <FNM.N> and Freddie Mac <FRE.N> under a government...
WASHINGTON, Sept 7 - Both U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain said on Sunday they see the federal takeover of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as necessary. Republican McCain supports...
Sept 7 - Democrat Barack Obama called the U.S. government's takeover of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae <FNM.N> and Freddie Mac (FRE.N) a necessary move, and his Republican presidential rival John McCain views it as...