Fears that turbulence in the high-risk mortgage market would spread eased on Wednesday after two lenders managed to secure enough money to stay afloat. Fremont Generalannounced it is selling $4 billion of subprime residential loans to an unidentified buyer, a move that drove its battered stock up on the New York Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, hedge fund operator Citadel LP has taken a 4.5% stake in Accredited Home Lenders Holding, a San Diego-based subprime lender. Accredited's stock climbed on Nasdaq. "That consolidation effort makes it less of a contagion," said Mark Ficke, head of U.S. government bond trading at BNP Paribas in New York. Still, troubled lenders were paying a steep price for their newfound cash. Accredited will pay a hefty 13% annual interest to Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco hedge fund that has offered the company a five-year loan for $200 million.