Shares of Fannie, the No. 1 financer and guarantor of U.S. home loans, declined $2.62, or 7.1 percent, to $34.29.
Meanwhile, Freddie's shares fell $3.73, or 10.6 percent, to finish at $31.31 in trading Tuesday.
Freddie's CEO, Richard Syron, said the government-sponsored company could lose an additional $5.5 billion to $7.5 billion over the next few years from soured loans.
Fannie CEO Daniel Mudd, also meeting with analysts at the conference, forecast "a very tough 2008" and continued weakness in home prices through 2009. Mudd called the wave of defaults and foreclosures this year the worst mortgage crisis "in recent memory."
The Washington-based company, which lost $1.4 billion in the third quarter, sold $7 billion in preferred stock last week to raise capital to stabilize its finances. Mudd said Tuesday that Fannie had no further plans for such sales over the next year.
Mudd said the company could raise additional capital, however, through sales of mortgage investment holdings, increased fees on mortgages and other measures.
Syron said that while the mortgage crisis has brought a rising wave of foreclosure notices into public view, less evident have been "pictures of people standing with furniture on the lawn" after being forcibly evicted from their homes. "As that begins to happen, and it will happen, I am afraid of the impact that this has."
The chief executives' remarks came a day after Freddie and Fannie said they would change their criteria for purchasing delinquent home loans they've guaranteed, in order to reduce the number they buy from investors.
On Tuesday, McLean, Va.-based Freddie announced it was imposing a 0.25 percent fee on all new home loans it buys or guarantees with settlement dates starting March 9, matching an earlier move by Fannie. On a $300,000 mortgage, the new fee translates to an extra $750, which is expected to be passed on to homeowners, though the companies aren't saying. Both companies have begun adding surcharges on loans to borrowers with credit scores below 680 and who are borrowing more than 70 percent of the home's value.
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