NU Online News Service, Jan. 23, 2:36 p.m. EST

The market is apparently strengthening for the risky residential mortgage-backed securities purchased by the Federal Reserve Board in early 2009 as part of its bailout of American International Group.

This is in contrast to last year, when the Fed halted sale of the securities in June because the sales caused the prices of sub-prime MBS to tumble, according to recent articles in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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