Freddie

Or Fred·dy

[fred-ee]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Fred.

2. a female given name, form of Freda.

Example Sentences

On Friday, hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said he “underestimated” the connection between shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—which fell 4.5% and 1.1% on Friday, respectively—and crypto, as margin calls among crypto investors lead to sales of shares of the lending giants.

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The weekly national average has gone from around 6.8% a year ago to under 6.3% now, according to Freddie Mac tracking.

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Even though spreads on many forms of credit, such as corporate bonds, are historically tight, this isn’t the case for so-called agency mortgage-backed securities, which are backed by government-sponsored enterprises such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

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For example, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been allowed to step up purchases of mortgage-backed securities.

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At the pace of prepayments in October, over half of the balances of mortgages with an incentive to lower their interest rate by an average of 0.75 percentage point would be paid down early over the course of a full year, according to data on 6- to 24-month-old Freddie Mac loans compiled by the alternative-asset manager Mariner Investment Group’s Bright Meadow Capital team.

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