NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freddie Mac (FRE.N) posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday and the second-biggest U.S. home-finance company said it would raise capital to expand, sparking a rally in its shares.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA Inc (MBI.N), the world's largest bond insurer, posted a quarterly loss of $2.4 billion on Monday as it took charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds linked to subprime mortgages.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc (AIG.N), the world's largest insurer, posted its largest ever quarterly loss on Thursday after writing down assets linked to subprime mortgages, and said it would raise $12.5 billion to strengthen its balance sheet.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N) on Tuesday posted a massive quarterly loss, its third straight, on the protracted U.S. housing market slump, prompting it to slash its dividend and set plans to raise $6 billion of fresh funds.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Legg Mason Inc (LM.N) posted on Tuesday a wider-than-expected quarterly loss, the U.S. money manager's first loss ever, as it took a big charge related to a bail-out of money market funds exposed to risky securities and suffered outflows from its poorly performing funds.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N) posted a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday as sales gains in Asia and Latin America overshadowed a slump in the U.S. market, sending its shares up 13 percent.

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Britain's biggest mortgage lender begged for new funding on Tuesday and Germany's top bank suffered its first quarterly loss in years as the credit crunch sapped financial industry strength.

BERLIN -- Deutsche Bank AG said Tuesday that it wrote down $4.2 billion during the first quarter, pushing Germany's biggest bank to its first quarterly loss since 2003 amid trading losses, lower revenue and global market jitters.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG suffered its first quarterly loss in five years as global financial turmoil heaped more than $4 billion in writedowns on the bank and market ructions put a brake on earnings.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) made its first quarterly loss in five years as the cost of the global financial crisis mounted for Germany's biggest bank.