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Fannie Mae reported Tuesday that the duration gap of its mortgage portfolio narrowed to negative-10 months in September, a development that sparked a relief rally in shares of the government-sponsored ...

NEW YORK - A recent widening of yield spreads between the debt of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is directly attributable to Fannie's duration gap problems, analysts said. The spreads have grown ...

Have you ever looked at the success of your competitors and said to yourself, "What am I missing?" Companies small and large go through a strategic exercise called a gap analysis to answer that ...

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Last week Fannie Mae reported that its duration gap–a simple measure of the mismatch between the maturity of its assets and the maturity of its liabilities–fell to negative 14 months. The Office of ...

Major domestic insurance companies are consecutively launching renewable health insurance products. This move is interpreted as a portfolio adjustment in response to financial authorities cracking ...

The downside of the traditional banking model is that a positive duration gap means that profits fall when interest rates rise. Suppose, for example, that your bank makes 30-year fixed-rate mortgages ...

Nordea Bank Abp (OTCQX:NBNKF) could be slightly above the duration gap that is typical right now for European banks. Arguably, in markets like Norway, which has held higher for longer after a later ...