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mortgages.After taking about $14 billion from the Treasury last year, Freddie Mac would be using about half of its $100 billion Treasury lifeline. Other funding sources have shriveled in the credit crunch, enhancing the importance of liquidity from Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks, some of which are facing capital shortfalls of their own.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are also fighting a headwind of unrealized losses on interest-rate derivatives they use to hedge their mortgage portfolio, Moshe Orenbuch, a strategist at Credit Suisse, said in a research note on Monday.What's more, prospects of legislation that would make it easier for a bankruptcy judge to tear up mortgage contracts has hit the value of securities held by the companies, he said. That could add $20 billion to the Treasury's costs of buoying the companies, he added.The value of holdings of "conventional" mortgages should provide some offset to losses elsewhere, analysts said. Growing portfolios also suggest rising interest income.Treasury injections will likely keep the companies operating as government entities for years, as they struggle to service costs and provide money for U.S housing, Setia said in a conference call last week. Before the conservatorships, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac operated as quasi-governmental "agencies," where they relied on charters from Congress, but answered to shareholders.(Reporting by Al Yoon; Editing by Jan Paschal) Hot Stocks Housing Market.

MSTIR to Provide Free Case Studies and Course Materials to Faculty and StudentsWorldwideCAMBRIDGE, Mass.(Business Wire)MITs Sloan School of Management announced the global launch of a new website,MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR), offering a collection ofcreative teaching materials developed by MIT faculty and students. The websiteprovides free case studies, teaching videos, and other innovative instructionalresources, sharing the Schools knowledge with the world. While many business schools charge for these types of materials, MIT Sloandeveloped MSTIR to provide its most current work and developments at no chargeto faculty and students - and anyone with access to the Internet all over theworld. MIT Sloan Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates said, "Our goal is to spread knowledge andmake a difference in the world of business educationto have an impact onbusiness education and where it is going in the future." Although MSTIRs collection of materials covers a wide range of organizations,industries, and geographic areas, it focuses on areas in which MIT Sloansresearch and teaching are on the cutting edge and for which teaching resourcesare not as widely available.

"We want to focus on areas where exciting things are happening and we have aunique contribution to make in management and business education," said Yates. The website is particularly unique in that students had a hands-on role indeveloping many of the materials. For example, some case studies are based onstudents experiences in a course called Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab)working with young companies abroad to address startup issues and challenges. In the case study, "Compsis at a Crossroads," students address how a Brazilianstartup considers entering new markets, particularly the U.S. In "PPS ,"students describe Chinas online video distribution market and the challengesfor a China-based online video provider startup as it prepares a growth and exitstrategy. Case studies related to sustainability, typically developed in the context of acourse called Sustainability Lab (S-Lab) include: "Materials Pooling A, B, C,"which describes the concept of materials pooling as a sustainability strategyfor businesses and the challenges that such collaborations encounter; and"SunPower: Focused on the Future of Solar Power," which highlights thatcompanys dilemma as to whether to try and maintain market share through astrategy of differentiated technology or through pricing.

That section also includes a case study on the video game industry, "Sony'sBattle for Video Game Supremacy," in which Sony Corporations CEO HowardStringer reflects on the industrys 30-year history and his hopes for asuccessful launch of PlayStation 3. In addition to adding more areas of focus, the School also plans to addmanagement flight simulators interactive models based on system dynamics that will be available for faculty worldwide to use with their students. Thefirst set of management flight simulators, targeted for summer of 2009, willinclude related case studies. Iexpect it to be very much a two-way street." The website also offers faculty at MIT Sloan and elsewhere exclusive access toteaching notes and videos, as well as an opportunity to engage in onlinediscussions of the downloadable teaching materials. All of the materials available on both sitescarry a creative commons license, allowing them to be downloaded, copied, anddistributed. For over 50 years, the MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge,Mass., has been one of the world's leading academic sources of innovation inmanagement theory and practice.