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Ready, aim...FIRE!!!
It is this "late buying opportunity" with good news that causes the pps to rise higher very quickly. With a slight hint of good news, this stock can skyrocket any day now due to this "anticipation"...the market has always set the price, when has it not...that's why it's called the "market"...these days it's been trickling down ever so slowly without any volume because people "anticipated" some good news in the near future, yet with the postponement in discovery, people are selling their shares/MM's trying to enhance the selling process by lowering the pps...how low will it go...when will the bulls start buying up all the selling shares...2.50, 2.30, 2.20? looks like they marked it yesterday down near $2.00...it has been in the past with this so called "fat finger" marking it has gone down to where it stopped to test it...will it test it again soon? probable, unless news hits beforehand and there's another buying frenzy...either case...I've already got my buy orders in...I just need people to sell the hell out of it...cause it's quite a big of a chunkahunkamoolamoola... Ready, willing, and ABLE!!!
This stock has gone up as much as it's gone down in the past without any stimulus...so...not always the case...likely? maybe...but not everytime...
I'm not...it's too early for a debate...I'm making coffee now...see you when the MARKET opens...
Yes, every up and down trend requires a confirmation whenever there's a doji...however even on a down trend it requires a substantial amount of volume to get past a support level...
You're buying and selling in potential...not the market? What?! OTC is still a market...whether you like it or not...
Then how are you buying and selling it?
FNMA is in the market...
Last Pattern:BULLISH HARAMI CROSS
Market Outlook The market is finally giving hints of a bullish resurgence. Today a bullish pattern is detected.
Pattern Description This is a major bullish reversal pattern, which is even more significant than a regular Bullish Harami. The outline again looks like a pregnant woman, as with the Bullish Harami Pattern. However, now the baby is a Doji. Basically, the pattern is characterized by a black body followed by a Doji that is completely inside the range of the prior black body.
https://www.americanbulls.com/SignalPage.aspx?lang=en&Ticker=FNMA
That could fall inline as the same definition as well...either case it doesn't apply to pro MM's and their system is much different and enhanced to make a fail-safe trade...
No such thing as "MM's accidental fat finger" (they're pros and their system has a fail safe trade)...need to get this CT's "fat finger" thing out of people's minds...
keep in mind shorts can borrow to sell...
It does't mean it was traded at that low price...it just means it's how low the seller was willing to sell...the actual trade would be much higher (closer to market value), but it shows on the chart how far the seller put their price.
It may show on the chart as a trade being the low pps...but it doesn't necessarily mean it was actually traded that low...it just means the sell trade value was how low it was sent but the actual trading was done near the current market value (if shares to cover is sufficient).
...can almost hear wind break...
It's green Beambe chili bean
It's not always going to be riding the upper bolli, but just because it falls below it people shouldn't just automatically assume it's going to drop to the lower bolli...it's a bad trading practice...of course it all depends on your trading strategy, but there's many stops in between and it may take a very long time to get to the lower bolli...by the time it gets there, it may just well be that the pps has gone up and the lower bolli met up higher...
...and that means what? It's riding the 100sma...sure it can drop to the 10sma to 2.43-2.45 range, but it can also just take off from the 100sma since it's having a hell of time getting through it...as it is on the weekly it's consolidating for the next leg up...that's how I see it atleast...being pessimistic and shorting is un-American...
I guess it's a matter of how you look at it...to me light volume means both ways...you can have light volume where people are not buying, but it also means people are not shorting...just because there's light volume doesn't give me the automatic ASSumption that the pps will go down...is the glass half full or half empty?
Come on Fannie...you know how to ride that bolli...
What exactly is it telling you? Your hints of the charts are very pessimistic and yet the price hasn't gone there. Why stop at lower $2's...might as well say it'll go sub-pennies since there's no news, the future is very foggy, and the forest is dense as hell...shall we even go as far as say...the GSE's might as well go into receivership since there's no news and the court date has been extended yet again...I don't think so...hommie don't play that...
So defensive...gee...wonder why...can't even make a simple comment anymore without people getting overly excited...
His post sure sounded like he wanted people to sell...doesn't it?
DOW up 100+
It's prepping for another run...
over 2.25 million buying at ask for FNMAS....
Flashback...comparing the outlook then and now...
Fannie & Freddie: The most expensive bailout
Efforts to use the troubled mortgage finance firms to fix housing market problems are likely to push the taxpayer bill for Fannie & Freddie above $100 billion.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: July 27, 2009: 1:48 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The first big government bailout of the financial crisis -- the takeover of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- is poised to be the most expensive and complicated to complete.
Since Congress essentially wrote a blank check to the Treasury Department in July 2008 to do what needed to be done to inject capital into the two firms, Fannie (FNM, Fortune 500) has received $34.2 billion of direct government support while Freddie (FRE, Fortune 500) has received $51.7 billion.
While that's lower than the $117.5 billion poured into insurer AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) by the Federal Reserve and the $200 billion given to the nation's largest banks through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, the current cost of the Fannie and Freddie bailouts dwarfs original estimates from a year ago
When Congress was debating the bailout of Fannie and Freddie last July, the official estimate from the Congressional Budget Office was that a bailout would most likely cost taxpayers $25 billion, with only a 5% chance of the price tag reaching $100 billion between them.
In addition, both Fannie and Freddie are likely to need billions of dollars more after they report second quarter results in the coming weeks. Experts believe the cost will only continue to rise in the next year.
"We're assuming they each will cross the $100 billion mark fairly soon. They could be hitting the $200 billion barrier by the end of next year," said Bose George, mortgage analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank specializing in financial services firms.
The direct government aid has helped keep the two troubled firms solvent. The amount of any additional aid will be determined by their ongoing losses and reserves for future losses on the trillions of dollars in mortgage loans they own or guarantee.
Fannie and Freddie were originally created to help ensure that financing for homes would be available and affordable to more consumers. The two firms buy mortgages from banks and other lenders and bundle them together into securities. They then either hold those securities or sell them to them to investors with a guarantee that they will be paid the money owed by homeowners.
But as more homeowners continue to default on mortgages, the two firms will likely book additional losses well into next year.
Neither firm has given an estimate as to how high losses will reach. But the original limit of $100 billion in losses set in place when the government put Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship, essentially a form of bankruptcy, last September was quickly raised early this year to $200 billion each because of concerns about looming losses.
In return for pumping taxpayer dollars into the two firms, Treasury received preferred stock, which is designed to give the government a healthy 10% to 12% dividend. But few expect that Fannie or Freddie will be able to pay that dividend, let alone return the money handed to the firms to cover their losses..
Even James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government body that has overseen the two firms since they were placed into conservatorship, said it will be a challenge for Fannie and Freddie to make their scheduled payments.
"Obviously the 10% dividend is a high rate," he said, but added that this is probably below what private market investors would demand to own preferred shares in the two companies.
Lockhart also agrees with experts who believe that the government will eventually have to write down at least a portion of the money that has been sunk into Fannie and Freddie. He would not estimate how much, saying it will depend upon housing prices in the future.
But Lockhart maintained that the loss of taxpayer money is worth it in the long run because Fannie and Freddie have continued to be vital parts of the housing market during the credit crunch.
"They really have been the backbone of the housing market throughout this period," he said. "The money spent, we can at least say has gone to a good cause -- keeping the housing market much more stable than it would have been [without the bailout]."
And it's precisely for this reason that experts think the ultimate bailout cost will climb much higher. The money allocated for Fannie and Freddie is being used not to simply return the firms to profitability, but to try and fix the broader housing market's problems.
Using Fannie and Freddie for housing policy
Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration have used government control of Fannie and Freddie to implement various policies to try to address rising home foreclosures and falling prices. The firms are a key part of the Obama administration's efforts to refinance mortgages of at-risk home owners, in some cases making loans for up to 125% of the home's current market value.
"The way to think of the cost is not as a loan," said Phillip Swagel, a professor at Georgetown's business school who was the assistant secretary for economic policy in the final months of the Bush administration. "It's really a way of spending taxpayer money for policy purposes."
In contrast, other companies receiving federal bailout dollars, such as automakers General Motors and Chrysler, money-losing banks and AIG, were given the charge by Treasury Department officials to stem their financial bleeding so they could eventually be returned to full ownership by the private markets.
But unlike the rapid six week bankruptcy process at GM and Chrysler, the conservatorships at Fannie and Freddie won't be coming to a conclusion any time soon. Even as it laid out its plans to reform the nation's financial regulatory system last month, the Obama administration said it would not put forward a permanent plan to fix the mortgage finance firms until February 2010.
After that, it's uncertain how long it will take to get the necessary approval from Congress for any changes to the current structure of Fannie and Freddie. There is a case for maintaining the status quo since Congress and the Obama administration have been able to use the two firms to deal with broader problems in the housing market.
What's clear is that there will continue to be a need for companies like Fannie and Freddie to keep mortgage costs relatively affordable by packaging loans into securities, placing a guarantee on them, and selling them to investors.
Some experts believe that this business can become very profitable again, especially if Fannie and Freddie maintain tight underwriting standards from now on.
Fannie and Freddie "may own the securitization game for the next decade," said Jaret Seiberg, analyst with Concept Capital's Washington Research Group. "They'll have a duopoly, a smaller portfolio and a profitable business model."
But before any of that happens, taxpayers will likely take an even bigger hit on the Fannie and Freddie bailouts first.
First Published: July 22, 2009: 3:17 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/22/news/companies/fannie_freddie_bailout/
Law is made by Congress, not in the White House...
"I Want to know where the outrage is"
Who needs tv right...
Unless the lower bolli goes higher just like when it dropped past the lower bolli...it isn't always the case...
...along with the sweep including the whole contract...
I only know one other that is supposed to be used for the CSP for the GSE's...not sure about your 3rd building that you mention...which one is that?
You maybe on to something...
So approximately...the building will be 3.5 times larger than the current one...
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.904421,-77.03457,3a,75y,270.14h,109.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1spimnd0iO1TJnxU-LnreR9Q!2e0!6m1!1e1
Leasing activity
• After an extensive search for a new home, The Washington Post
signed a 249,898-square-foot lease at 1301 K Street, NW. The
newspaper will shed approximately 50,000 square feet as it relocates
from 1150 15th Street, NW to One Franklin Square, a prominent
building in the heart of the District.
http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/Research/WashingtonDC-Office-Highlights-Q2-2014-JLL.pdf
Washington Post headquarters to sell to Carr Properties for $159 million
By Jonathan O'Connell November 27, 2013
Graham Holdings, the former parent of The Washington Post, has reached a deal to sell the newspaper’s longtime headquarters at 15th and L streets NW to Carr Properties for $159 million.
The newspaper, now owned by Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, will continue to rent space in the building until it identifies a new headquarters location, a search that began before Bezos bought the paper.
Graham Holdings, which includes a mix of businesses such as Kaplan educational services, is the new post-sale name for the company controlled by Donald E. Graham and his family.
The properties include 1150 15th St., 1515 L St. and 1523 L St. The D.C. government assesses them at nearly $80 million. The sale also includes the land beneath an office building Carr already owns, a 12-story, 144,000-square-foot property at 1100 15th St.
The Post’s editorial and business operations still occupy the building, about four blocks north of the White House. The Post also once printed newspapers in the building, but after readership started shifting to the suburbs in the 1970s and ’80s, it opened a printing plant in Springfield and then in College Park and ceased printing on the downtown presses in 1999.
Carr Properties is the latest iteration of a family empire begun 51 years ago by magnate Oliver T. Carr Jr. The company recently landed a $300 million investment from Alony Hetz Properties and Investments, one of Israel’s largest real estate investment companies, and has been on a buying spree.
The company plans to expand its real estate holdings from about $800 million today to $1.5 billion in coming years and then possibly go public, allowing it to attract more cash through an initial public offering.
Oliver T. Carr III, president and chief executive of Carr Properties, was at a family event Wednesday afternoon and not immediately available to comment. The company had been trying to sell its stake at 1150 15th St. but remained open to acquiring the rest of The Post’s property instead.
Carr has said in the past that the Post headquarters, located a few blocks from the booming apartment corridor on 14th Street, would make sense as a mixed-use project. Historic preservation groups decided not to nominate parts of the properties as historic landmarks, removing a possible barrier to redevelopment.
“I would imagine a mixed-use redevelopment that would include both some office as well as some residential, perhaps hotel. It could add some vitality,” Carr said in an earlier interview.
Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth told employees in February that she had begun exploring the sale of the headquarters and relocating, saying the goal was to “give us a more modern, bright, open and efficient building that better supports and advances our mission into the future.”
Sources familiar with the companies’ search, but who were not authorized to share details publicly, said Graham Holdings has been looking for about 30,000 square feet in Northern Virginia. Graham Holdings spokeswoman Rima Calderon declined to comment on the requirements and said in an e-mail that the company has not narrowed its search to any one jurisdiction.
The newspaper has been looking for up to 270,000 square feet in the District. It received about two dozen proposals over the summer and has been narrowing its options.
Graham Holdings has been jettisoning real estate now that it no longer owns the flagship newspaper. The contract for the headquarters follows deals for two Robinson Terminal warehouses on the Potomac River in Alexandria that the company is selling.
The deal for the downtown D.C. building is expected to close at the end of March.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/washington-post-headquarters-to-sell-to-carr-properties-for-159-million/2013/11/27/1a0cab56-57aa-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html
I'm sure Carr Properties is not demolishing and make it bigger just on a 30 year lease...maybe more like a 100 year lease...
Tell that to the guy that's holding the GSE's hostage...
...people need to start voting for a President who doesn't have a birth certificate (generated) issue again...