President Barack Obama pledged to veto any legislation that weakens new curbs on Wall Street as banks and the Republican-led Congress increasingly seek to roll back the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation law.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors lost their legal challenges to a change to the mortgage giants 2008 bailouts that sent their profits to the U.S. Treasury.
Radian Group Inc. and MGIC Investment Corp. are among mortgage insurers that would need to fill a financial gap under new financial-strength rules proposed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.