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Rate Update August 19, 2009
Yesterday afternoon mortgage rates increased but have reversed lower this morning to match levels yesterday’s ‘rate update’. Mortgage rates improved this morning in response to weaker equity markets around the world. The Chinese Shanghai Composite Index lost 4.3% overnight. It is now off 20% in the past 2 weeks. Here in the US stocks opened [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2009 under Rate Update.
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Rate Update July 28, 2009
Mortgage rates are unchanged from yesterday. As I explained in yesterday’s ‘rate update’ we are closely watching the level of foreign participation in this week’s US Treasury auctions. Today there will be $42 billion in US T-bills sold to the market. We wouldn’t surprised to see mortgage rates increase due to the additional supply of [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under Rate Update.
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Rate Update July 27, 2009
Mortgage rates are unchanged from Friday. This week’s schedule for US Treasury fixed-income securities auction: The US Treasury is scheduled to sell a high volume of T-bills, notes, and bonds this week. On Monday, $6 billion in Treasury-inflation-protected 19.5-year notes will be auctioned; along with $32 billion in 13-week bills and $31 billion in 26-week [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Rate Update.
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