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Author Topic: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac relocated to OTCBB from NYSE  (Read 128 times)
zaimoni
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« on: June 17, 2010, 08:29:55 am »

MarketWatch:
June 15, 2010: NYSE informs the conservator, Federal Housing Finance Agency,  that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac no longer are qualified.

June 16, 2010: Delisting order goes out.  Actual transition to the U.S. OTCBB is scheduled for July 8, 2010.  (Yes, the pink sheets.  The virtual exchange where you have to up-front acknowledge the stocks' illiquidity before purchasing.)

Of course, if they weren't parastatal corporations they'd have been delisted for negative total equity long before now:
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First things first. Fannie and Freddie aren’t real companies. The total equity in the two companies is a negative $146.9 billion, according to Bose George, an equity analyst covering the mortgage and housing sectors for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. In short, these are government-owned zombie entities that would have been shut down by regulators long ago, if the regulators didn’t own them.
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