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...they could bridge this gulf. Under the old model, Swanberg would have taken the film to festivals to drum up interest among distributors and then waited a year or longer for a theatrical campaign to reach major cities. A few months later, the DVD would hit shelves in smaller markets. But with Alexander the Last, which opened in every major market via Festival Direct at midnight on Saturday - along with four other South by Southwest titles - Swanberg says he's eliminated the window between his festival screening and home-video campaign, all the while substantially reducing the cost...
...Freddie's portfolio of [mortgage] insurance is more risky than the market was led to believe," says Paul Miller, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. Sister company Fannie Mae lost even more last year, with $58.7 billion of red ink. But Fannie was better capitalized than Freddie going into the credit crunch. So even though Freddie by many measures is smaller than Fannie, the problems at Freddie will probably end up costing more...
When will the red ink at Freddie stop? It's hard to say. In its most recent annual report, the company said that if it had to mark all its assets to the price similar bonds are trading for in the market, the company's net worth would sink by an additional $65 billion. But Freddie's bottom-line woes may run even deeper. Freddie has $38 billion in losses it has yet to acknowledge in its investment portfolio. The firm also has $48 billion in nonperforming loans that it either holds or has guaranteed against. In a painful stroke...
...they may just expand a new program run by the Federal Reserve. That program, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), is designed to spur consumer lending by stimulating sales of securitized consumer loans. The New York Federal Reserve has had to extend the application period because of market qualms, though Talbott says interest is building...
...Geithner provides answers to these questions in his rollout later this week, he may start to turn the corner on public skepticism toward him, the bank plan and the government's recovery efforts. He might even spark a stock-market rally. But the banking industry's hopes are more modest: "As long as he comes out with details on the public-private investment fund, then it's not a miss," says Talbott. If he doesn't, he'll have an even bigger mess on his hands. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby - the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee - Senator John...