<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081111/bs_nm/us_financial_usa_gse"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081111/2008_11_11t134912_450x354_us_financial_usa_gse.jpg ?x=130&y=102&q=85&sig=XV6tmq.jGHIzi3GPEjgU6Q--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="A house for sale in a file photo. (Erin Siegal/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The regulator for the two largest U.S. mortgage finance companies on Tuesday unveiled a plan that could cut payments for hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners to help reverse a wave of defaults threatening to swamp the economy.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(Reuters)