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Mortgage Rate Update for the Week ending August 10, 2012
Mortgage Rates Recover After Gains of Past Weeks After an upward move over the past two to three weeks, mortgage rates recovered a little ground today (a trend that started yesterday), ending in line...
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Mortgage Outlook for the Week Beginning August 13, 2012
The past two to three weeks have seen mortgage rates rise, with a slight stall and recovery where mortgage rates regained a little ground last Thursday and Friday. Mortgage rates have begun to climb as...
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Adjustable Rate vs Fixed Rate Mortgage Basics
Adjustable Rate Mortgage Basics: ARM or Fixed Rate? With an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) you pay a fixed rate of interest on your mortgage for a specified period, after which the rate adjusts until...
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End of Week Mortgage Wrap Up: August 17, 2012
Mortgage rates got some relief today, improving slightly after spending most of the week rising, mirroring activity we saw last week. Today marked the most mild day the bond markets have seen in weeks....
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Mortgage Wrap Up for the Week Ending September 7, 2012
Mortgage rates have fallen consecutively over the past two weeks. Today saw disappointing employment data released that further pushed mortgage rates closer to all time historic lows. While the...
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How Mortgage Rates Are Affected by Mortgage Backed Securities
Mortgage rates are affected by mortgage backed securities, usually when the money supply significantly increases or reduces. It is important to distinguish between mortgage rates and the Federal...
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Employment Data and Mortgage Rates: The Connection Between Them
Employment data and mortgage rates are intimately connected. This is partially because the Federal Reserve must maintain conditions that favor as high a level of employment as possible but must also...
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Fed Reserve Basics: What is the Federal Reserve?
The question ‘What is the Federal Reserve?’ has been asked countless times by countless news watchers and home owners that are trying to understand how the FED affects mortgage rates and finance in...
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How Mortgage Backed Securities Affect Mortgage Rates
This article is intended to help the reader understand the cryptic sounding term mortgage backed securities or MBSs and how they affect mortgage rates. To begin with let us look into what mortgage...
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Why Employment And Jobs Data Affect Mortgage Rates
Features of the main financial sectors of the economy are deeply interlinked. When you look at the figures for one type of activity in the economy, it may be affected by another and directly influence...
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