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Russia wants to see what happens to Fannie, Freddie | Industry Summits | Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia sees Washington's move to take control of troubled U.S. mortgage agencies as positive, but wants to see them emerge from crisis before buying any more of their debt, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
The U.S. government has committed up to $200 billion to support Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which together back about half the United States' $12 trillion in mortgages and whose debt holders include major countries. ID:nN07463067
"I judge this decision as positive. When countries like Russia, China or Japan put their reserves into this (agency) debt, we were always assuming such U.S. government actions in the case of a crisis situation," Kudrin said at an interview at the Reuters Russia Investment Summit.
"Today we have seen that our views and the views of other countries on this are the same as those of U.S. authorities," he said at the event, being held at the Reuters office in Moscow.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia sees Washington's move to take control of troubled U.S. mortgage agencies as positive, but wants to see them emerge from crisis before buying any more of their debt, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
The U.S. government has committed up to $200 billion to support Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), Freddie Mac (FRE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which together back about half the United States' $12 trillion in mortgages and whose debt holders include major countries. ID:nN07463067
"I judge this decision as positive. When countries like Russia, China or Japan put their reserves into this (agency) debt, we were always assuming such U.S. government actions in the case of a crisis situation," Kudrin said at an interview at the Reuters Russia Investment Summit.
"Today we have seen that our views and the views of other countries on this are the same as those of U.S. authorities," he said at the event, being held at the Reuters office in Moscow.