Freddie Mac has priced $4 billion of 4.875%, three-year Reference Notes due on Feb. 9, 2010.The issue (CUSIP: 3137EAAP4) was priced at 99.661 to yield 4.998%, 22.0 basis points more than three-year Treasury notes, the government-sponsored enterprise said. The new security was offered via a syndicate of dealers headed by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch.
The agreement, in which the real estate giant admits no wrongdoing, will cover around 70,000 agents.
Doxo plans to fight the FTC complaint, which focuses broadly on consumer finance, but there are signs of confusion about the company's role in mortgages too.
Members of the LGBTQ community were most likely to have experienced housing bias, according to a Zillow survey, which also found many people don't recognize how fair lending laws could help.
Senior executives making over $151,000 would still be subject to such clauses should the rule go into effect this year.
Christopher J. Gallo and his aide, Mehmet A. Elmas, allegedly withheld information in mortgage applications, hiding that borrowers were purchasing second home properties.
Mortgage rates rose 7 basis points this week, Freddie Mac said, and more increases are likely following a weaker than expected gross domestic product report.
