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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.
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 07-08-05
Rate-Hike Concerns Send Mortgage Rates Up, It's been a bumpy ride for U.S. Treasury securities, which continued to sell even after the long holiday weekend. Selling heated up after the Fed announced on June 30 that rate hikes would continue at a “measured” pace, when traders were hoping f..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, July 08, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 07-01-05
Mortgage Rates Hold Their Ground, The Federal Open Markets Commit-tee hiked short-term interest rates by 25 basis points - the ninth such move in the past year. U.S. Treasury yields ticked down slightly in the wake of the expected decision. What did move bonds during the week were bi..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, July 01, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 06-24-05
Two-Day Treasury Rally Sends Mortgage Rates Down, With little on the docket in the way of economic news traders of U.S. Treasury securities had to look elsewhere for direction. And they found some. Encouraging words from a preeminent bond fund manager sent Treasuries on a two-day rally that resulted..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, June 24, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 06-17-05
Steady Selling in Treasuries Sends Mortgage Rates Up
Ever since Fed chairman Alan Greenspan told the Joint Committee of Congress on June 9 that rate increases will continue at a 'measured' pace, “sell” has been the mantra for U.S. TreasurTwo key inflation indicators showed benign growth in wholesale and retail prices. The Producer Price Index for May fell 0.6 percent due to lower oil prices last month. The core rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose by only 0.1 pe..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, June 17, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 06-10-05
Mixed Signals Leave Mortgage Rates Unchanged
A two-day rally in U.S. Treasuries, followed by moderate selling, left yields on government issues up a bit from where they were a week ago. Treasuries rallied on bond-friendly comments by Fed chairmanThe rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage (based on zero discount points) remains above 5.375 percent, while the 15-year fixed-rate edged up past 5.0 percent. The introductory rate on the volatile one-year adjustable-rate mortgage shot up to 3.875 perce..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, June 10, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 06-03-05
Mortgage Rates Fall on Heavy Buying in Bonds, A surprisingly weak employment report for May capped a great week for U.S. Treasuries. Strong demand for U.S. Treasury securities sent the yield on the benchmark 10-year note, which moves in the opposite direction of price, to a 16-month low. In addi..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Monday, June 06, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 05-27-05
Mortgage Rates Remain Low , A rally in U.S. Treasury securities that lasted almost two weeks screeched to a halt when Fed officials and minutes from the May 3 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee made it clear that rate hikes would continue - albeit at a “measured pace...
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| Article XML Feed | | - Monday, June 06, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 05/20/05
Mortgage Rates Trend Down, Strong rallies in U.S. Treasury securities, based on waning fears of inflation, weak economic reports and safe-haven buying, kept the yield on the benchmark 10-year note, which lenders use as a guide to set rates, near its lowest level in three month..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, May 20, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 05/13/05
Mortgage Rates Edge Down in Spite of Volatility, It's been an up and down week for U.S. Treasury securities, which began on the downside - a fallout from the bullish April employment report released May 6. Visions of slower economic growth were erased by the addition of 274,000 new jobs, and r..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, May 13, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 05/06/05
Mortgage Rates Mostly Unchanged, U.S. Treasury securities moved up one day and fell the next, but they ended the week on a down note after a stronger-than-expected April employment report was released. Big gains in employment spurred selling in Treasuries as traders saw hope of a pa..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Monday, May 09, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 04/29/05
Mortgage Rates Remain at Lower Levels, Strong housing sales kept pressure on U.S. Treasury securities early in the week, but a combination of weak economic news and some disappointing earnings reports sent buyers back to bonds. Signs of a slowing economy have moved to the fore, and Treasu..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Monday, May 02, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 04/22/05
Wild Week Sends Most Mortgage Rates Down, Disappointing earnings reports, weak economic news and big sell-offs on Wall Street encouraged buying of U.S. Treasury securities, sending prices up and yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, down. Surprisingly negative ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 04/15/05
Mortgage Rates Remain at Lower Levels
The minutes from the March 22 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, released April 12, cooled inflation concerns and heated up buying in U.S. Treasuries during the week. The report suggested solid economic gSecond only to the Fed minutes in importance were the March data on retail sales. Weaker-than-expected by far, sales rose a mere 0.3 percent when analysts were expecting a gain of 0.8 percent. And when auto sales were excluded, sales edged up by only..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 04/08/05
Mortgage Rates Edge Down
Mortgage rates edged down the first week of April in response to the tame employment numbers released for March. The additional of only 110,000 jobs to non-farm payrolls and the small increase in wages reassured the U.S.
The financial markets had to wait until Thursday to get economic indicators, and even then they were non-events. First-time unemployment claims fell for the first time in three weeks. Applications for benefits dropped by 19,000 to 334,000 for the w..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 04/01/05
Mortgage Rates Remain at Elevated Levels
Bond traders prepared for the worst early in the week, selling U.S. Treasuries in anticipation of strong readings on a number of key economic reports. Traders priced in bigger Fed rate hikes that might be The feared indicators turned out to be more bond-friendly than expected. The Employment Report for March showed weaker-than-expected job growth, with only 110,000 jobs added to non-farm payrolls. And the wages component did not show inflationary tren..
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