Weakness in the U.S. housing market will make it impossible for the federal government to withdraw its support for the mortgage-finance system in the coming year, Freddie Mac Chief Executive Officer Charles E. Haldeman said.
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored firms that own or control half of the U.S. mortgage market, have been run under federal conservatorship since September 2008 when they were seized by regulators amid losses that pushed them to the brink of collapse. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has promised to deliver a plan for overhauling the firms and the mortgage-finance system by the end of January.
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