Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae's investment portfolio shrinks in Feb. - 2004-03-15
Fannie Mae, the No. 1 U.S. mortgage finance company, revealed on Monday the size of its mortgage investment portfolio dropped 6 percent in February, shrinking for a fifth straight month.

The company's investment or retained portfolio, which fell 14.6 percent in January, totaled $882.1 billion at the end of February.
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A Call to Adjustable Rate Mortgages - 2004-03-15
It's never effortless to understand exactly what Alan Greenspan means when he makes his periodic Delphic statements about the financial system. But the Federal Reserve chairman established a new whazzat? standard recently when he suggested that the millions of homeowners who proudly hold a fixed-rate mortgage — roughly 80% of all those with a mortgage — are committing a financial blun-der that may cost them thousands of dollars a year.
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