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Moneytalks is Interest.com's weekly consumer-oriented mortgage magazine. We wrap up the prior week's mortgage-related market activity and movements in one concise, easy-to-read report to save you time, and we preview the coming week's economic highlights. Moneytalks also gives you charts and graphs that tell you at a glance where key interest rates currently are and where they've been. An economic calendar will keep you alert to upcoming events and statistics, many of them from U.S. government agencies, that could move the markets and affect your personal financial decisions.
Below are links to the most-recent Moneytalks magazine plus an archive of articles dating back at least one year. Questions? Comments? Please email Interest.com's editorial staff at edit@interest.com. We'd love to hear from you.
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Weekly mortgage rate update for 2-10-06
Mortgage rates remain higher, There was little in the way of economic news to move U.S. Treasury securities, so they took their lead from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and auctions of three- and 10-year notes and the 30-year bond, which was successfully reintroduced on Thurs..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, February 10, 2006 |
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Weekly mortgage rate update for 2-03-06
Mortgage rates creeping up, Inflation concerns and disappointment in the Fed's statement on rate hikes, as well as nervousness about a flood of bond issues kept pressure on U.S. Treasury securities. Sellers outnumbered buyers and Treasury yields, which move in the opposite ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, February 03, 2006 |
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Weekly mortgage rate update for 1-27-06
Mortgage rates on the rise, Strong economic data, paired with concerns about an overabundance of government and corporate bonds, sent yields on U.S. Treasury securities to their highest levels since early December. Treasury yields move in the opposite direction of prices. The s..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, January 27, 2006 |
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Weekly mortgage rate update for 1-20-06
Treasuries rally mortgage rates fall, Benign news on inflation and safe-haven buying due to a couple of down days on Wall Street led to strong rallies in U.S. Treasury securities. Hints of a strengthening job market and growth in the manufacturing sector, however, tamed buying and nudged..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, January 20, 2006 |
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Weekly mortgage rate update for 1-13-06
A volatile week for mortgage rates, U.S. Treasury securities weathered a couple of moderate sell-offs that sent the yield on the benchmark 10-year note to its highest level in three weeks. Yields move in the opposite direction of prices. The increase in yields influenced lenders to edg..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, January 13, 2006 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 1-6-06
Mortgage rates edge down, Two days of gains in U.S. Treasury securities allowed lenders, who base their moves on Treasury yields, to edge rates down on many popular products. Buying was spurred by Fed minutes that suggested rate hikes would be coming to an end, an unexpected ..
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 12-30-05
Mortgage Rates Creeping Down
The U.S. Treasury markets witnessed a rarely seen yield curve inversion, which occurs when the yield on the two-year note exceeds that of the 10-year note. It happened on Dec. 27 for the first time in five years, and The new year begins tentatively with regard to economic indicators, but ends with a bang, as the Employment Report for Decem-ber comes out on Friday. Prior to that the most important data come from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which rel..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, December 30, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 12-23-05
Yields of U.S. Treasury securities, which move in the opposite direction of prices, rose one day and slipped the next – reacting to economic news. Strong reports sparked selling as traders worried the Fed would be forced to keep hiking short-term Treasuries got a lift from the Producer Price Index (PPI), which looks for inflation at the wholesale level. It found none, with the PPI posting a 0.7-percent decline in November (due largely to a drop in oil prices), and the core rate, which elim..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, December 23, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 12-16-05
Mortgage Rates Bobble, The Federal Open Market Committee gave bond traders a reason for optimism by suggesting that interest-rate hikes could slow or even cease in the undefined 'future.' This was enough to spark a big rally in U.S. Treasury securities, which sent ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, December 16, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 12-9-05
Treasury Yields Volatile, Mortgage Rates Steady, U.S. Treasury securities weathered a couple of bad days and reveled in a couple of good ones, in spite of a dearth of economic news. This week's key report showed productivity galloping ahead while costs remained low - good news for inflation wat..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, December 09, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 12-2-05
Mortgage Rates Mostly Unchanged, A torrent of economic releases sent U.S. Treasury securities on a bumpy ride, with traders buying one day only to sell-off the next. The bottom line -- inflation appears to be under control. And this was key in keeping Treasury yields, which move i..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, December 02, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 11-25-05
Mortgage Rates Edge Down on Some Products, A hint from the Fed that its rate-hike cycle may winding down rallied U.S. Treasury securities during a holiday-shortened week that offered little else in the way of market-moving news. The release of the minutes from the Nov. 1 meeting of the Federa..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 11-18-05
Mortgage Rates Begin to Creep Down, An influx of capital into the U.S. Treasury markets and signs of controlled inflation brought buyers back to bonds. A three-day rally that saw Treasury yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, fall to their lowest levels since late Oc..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, November 18, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 11-04-05
Yields on U.S. Treasuries continued to climb as the Federal Open Market Committee raised overnight lending rates for the 12th time since June 30, 2004. Although the 25-basis-point rate hike was expected, bond traders were hoping for some indication tRecent reports also suggest that inflationary pressures are still of major concern, igniting more selling. Inflation erodes the value of fixed-rate assets. Treasury yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, hit their highest levels in ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, November 04, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 10-28-05
Treasury Sell-Off Keeps Mortgage Rates High, Yields on U.S. Treasury securities soared this week amid constant fear of coming inflation and uncertainty about the approach the newly appointed Fed chairman will take. The nomination of Ben Bernanke, a former Fed governor, to succeed Alan Greenspan..
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