Freddie Declares 3Q Dividends

Freddie Mac's board of directors has announced a dividend of $0.50 per share on the corporation's voting common stock for the third quarter, unchanged from that of recent quarters.The board also declared the following preferred stock dividends per share: $0.59 on its 1996 and 1998 variable-rate stock; $0.72625 on its 1997, 2001, and 2002 5.81% stock; $0.625 on its 5% stock; $0.6375 on its 1998 and 1999 5.1% stock; $0.6625 on its 5.3% stock; $0.72375 on its 5.79% stock; $0.4475 on its 1999 variable-rate stock; $0.585 on its January 2001 variable-rate stock; $0.63889 on its March 2001 variable-rate stock; $0.645 on its May 2001 variable-rate stock; $0.75 on its 6% stock; $0.7125 on its 5.7% stock; $0.75 on its 2006 variable-rate stock; $0.8025 on its 6.42% stock; 0.36875 on its 5.9% stock; 0.348125 on its 5.57% stock; 0.35375 on its 5.66% stock; and 0.27592 on its 6.02% stock. The dividends will be payable on Sept. 28 to stockholders of record as of Sept. 17.