Both government-sponsored enterprises are comfortably within the maximum $250.0 billion mortgage portfolios they are permitted to have under the terms of their conservatorship.
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Among the tranches of residential MBS issued this year that received ratings from multiple firms, nearly 40.0 percent of the bonds had so-called split ratings, with different assessments by different rating services.
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Borrowers cited “best interest rate” as the reason they went with a particular lender in only 2.0 percent of purchase-mortgage transactions and 6.0 percent of refinances.
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