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<font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread betting and contracts for differences on stocks like Freddie Mac should consider that earnings reports can say a lot about how a company is doing. </span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, <a title="Freddie Mac, spread bets individual equities, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting Freddie Mac, spread betting, contracts for differences" target="_blank" href="http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/freddie-mac-posts-821-million-quarterly-loss/">Freddie Mac is posting a loss of $821 million</a> for the second quarter of 2008, continuing losses from the last three quarters.</span><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Additionally, <a title="Freddie Mac, spread bets individual equities, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting Freddie Mac, spread betting, contracts for differences" target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=atS_VI3QwTbg&refer=stocks">Freddie Mac said that it would reduce its dividend</a> due to the large losses -- by about 80 per cent.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It appears that recent <a title="Freddie Mac, spread bets individual equities, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting Freddie Mac, spread betting, contracts for differences" target="_blank" href="http://www.banks.com/blogs/mortgages/2008/07/15/fannie-freddie-may-help-housing-relief-bill/">efforts to help Freddie Mac</a>, and its fellow government sponsored enterprise, Fannie Mae, aren't causing a great deal of change</span></font>.<br /> 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for differences Freddie Mac spread bets spread bets individual equities spread betting spread betting Freddie Mac Spread bets on individual equities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.18 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web