Housing regulator offers further support for mortgage-finance companies <!-- no image --> <div>The U.S. housing regulator on Wednesday announced its second step in as many days to help ease the liquidity strain in the mortgage market.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Hgaw0YbN0j0:DY2WpXyM8JU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Hgaw0YbN0j0:DY2WpXyM8JU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Hgaw0YbN0j0:DY2WpXyM8JU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Hgaw0YbN0j0:DY2WpXyM8JU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Hgaw0YbN0j0:DY2WpXyM8JU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/Hgaw0YbN0j0" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters