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Economic Report:

Bad news for Freddie Mac on Wednesday suggests that the country hasn’t seen the end of the fall out from the housing crisis. The government-chartered firm said it had a net loss of 821 million dollars. The loss was three times more than what analysts had forecasted. The firm doubled reserves for future mortgage losses to $2.8 billion. This is the Freddie Mac’s fourth straight quarterly loss.