Mortgage Bonds Imperiled by $17 Billion of Sales: Credit Markets
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are set to auction as much as $17 billion of mortgage bonds they acquired before the real estate collapse to meet a regulatory directive, potentially straining demand at the same time the Federal Reserve considers a stimulus pullback.
The offerings by year-end of residential and commercial securities without government backing will follow sales of about $22 billion the past four months from the government-controlled companies, according to Deutsche Bank AG. The auctions are adding to the $7 billion of new commercial-mortgage bond deals that Wall Street is planning this month, the biggest pipeline since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began the sales in May.