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News Affecting Mortgage Interest Rates 08/09/10

9 August 2010

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This week we have five relevant reports that could affect the bond market and therefore, mortgage interest rates. The first is the all important Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Tuesday. This is where traders will scrutinize every word that is published from Bernanke and Company’s press release. Most important will be the wording on the [...]

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News Affecting Mortgage Interest Rates 07/12/2010

12 July 2010

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     This week will be a busy one with 6 important economic reports being released all towards the end of the week.      So what is in store for us? First off will be the one of two Treasury Auctions on Tuesday when the 10 year Notes will be sold. Retails Sales and the FOMC meeting minutes [...]

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News affecting Mortgage Interest Rates for Week 6/14/10

14 June 2010

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     This week will be full of what the Fed will do next week during their schedule meeting June 22-23.  The main debate as always will be whether they will raise their Fed Fund Rate which is the short term interest rate that banks change each other for use of overnight funds. If they raise the rate too fast, it could cause [...]

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News Affecting Mortgage Interest Rates Week of 5/24/2010

24 May 2010

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     It was another volatile week for the stock market as stocks lost ground and traders flocked to the bond market for security. Europe was the headline news as traders worry if Greece will be able to turn their overall financial situation around or if they will default on their loans in the future.      Along [...]

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News Affecting Mortgage Interest Rates for Week of 5/17/2010

17 May 2010

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      Like the song at the Disney’s attraction, it is definitely a “Small World After All”.       The Euro zone is still dealing with Greece’s economic woes and along the way, Spain, Italy and Portugal also are experiencing economic stability. This news had money flowing into the bond market as the European Central Bank unveiled their [...]

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Mortgage Interest Rates and FOMC statement

16 March 2010

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      Today’s FOMC statement’s language was basically the same as their January statement. The Federal Fund Rate will stay at this present level to help the economy continue to come out of this recession. The big difference in the language was with the housing industry and mortgage interest rates.      The housing industry has been slow to recovery in this [...]

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News affecting Mortgage Interest Rates for week of 03/15/10

15 March 2010

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     Mortgage interest rates had a fairly bumpy week even though we weren’t too many economic reports released. But economist  as well as some Fed members voiced their concern over the not here yet inflation last week. Will the Fed have the will to raise short term interest rates to subdue inflation due to our raising debt [...]

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