NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve bought $21.685 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities in the week
from Jul. 2 to Jul. 8, compared with $22.705 billion purchased the previous week, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday.
In a move to help the housing market begun in October 2011, the U.S. central bank has been using funds from principal payments
on the agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, or MBS, it holds to reinvest in agency MBS.
The New York Fed said on its website the Fed sold $3.6 billion in mortgage securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae (OB:FNMA),
Freddie Mac (OB:FMCC) or the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae,
in the latest week. It sold none the prior week.