Freddie Mac Press Release -
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Published on: 1/4/2001
Last Visited: 2/25/2002
"Historically," commented Michael Schoenbeck, senior financial analyst, "the traditional 1-Year ARM dominated the ARM market with nearly a third of all ARMs originated."
With the yield curve inverted, a few lenders actually had interest rates for longer initial-period ARMs lower than the traditional 1-year ARM.Another factor with an inverted yield curve is that the interest rates for medium-term hybrid ARMs -- 7/1 ARM, 10/1 ARM -- are equal to or above the 30-year FRMs.
Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned corporation established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing.Freddie Mac purchases single-family and multifamily residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage passthrough securities and debt instruments in the capital markets.Over the years, Freddie Mac has opened doors for one in six homebuyers and more than two million renters in America.