Freddie Mac appointed Donald H. Layton as CEO and a member of its board. The banking and financial services expert assumed the role on Monday, May 21. Layton, 62, replaced Charles E. “Ed” Haldeman Jr. who after two years as chief announced last fall his plan to step down t

Frank Nothaft According to Freddie Mac’s U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March, there are signs the U.S. housing market is awakening from its depression-like condition of the past few years and beginning, though slowly, to make a nascent recovery. Frank Nothaft, Fre