Dec 4 (Reuters) - The following are the sales schedules for Fannie Mae benchmark notes and Freddie Mac reference notes in 2008. Debt issued by the Federal Home Loan Banks is not sold based on a preset calendar, and offerings will be added as they are ...

4 Dec 2008

Dec 4 (Reuters) - The following is a list of scheduled U.S. agency bill sales from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2008. Freddie Mac settlement dates for its bill sales will be available the day those offerings are announced. *=Bills have been priced ...

4 Dec 2008

Real life is the enemy of sexiness. Real life is a bad economy, mortgage worries, global warming. Sexiness is the act of shedding worries and slipping off the constraints of real life. Best of luck doing that at home. While finding a sexy beach is a ...

4 Dec 2008

MONTREAL - National Bank Financial Group (TSX:NA) is hoping to weather the current economic turmoil and provide shareholders with earnings-per-share growth of five to 10 per cent annually in the medium term, CEO Louis Vachon said Thursday. "Global ...

4 Dec 2008

AKON turns his back on singing about his past life as a convict (as on previous albums Trouble and Konvicted) and turns his attentions to his love life on his third album. He claims to have moved on to a more Euro-pop sound, but most of Freedom is ...

4 Dec 2008

(RTTNews) - Bay Street stocks fell for a fourth straight session on Thursday and reached a 13-day low. The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped 239.14 or 2.88% to 8,057.82. It was the second-worst finishing level in more than four years, topping only the ...

4 Dec 2008