FILE PHOTO: The seal for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is displayed in Washington, U.S., June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
January 17, 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve bought no agency mortgage-backed securities in the week
from Jan. 10 to Jan. 16, compared with NONE purchased the previous week, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday.
In a move to help the housing market begun in October 2011, the U.S. central bank has been using funds from principal payments
on the agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, or MBS, it holds to reinvest in agency MBS.
The New York Fed said on its website the Fed sold no mortgage securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae <FNMA.OB>,
Freddie Mac <FMCC.OB> or the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae,
in the latest week. It sold none the prior week.