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Market Comment - Week of September 5th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose last week, which pushed mortgage interest rates lower. Rates started off on a bad note the first portion of the week as equities rallied on hopes of additional Fed stimulus spending and stronger than expected data. Factory or...

Market Comment - Week of August 29th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices fell last week, which pushed mortgage interest rates higher. Rates started off on a bad note Monday as stocks surged higher. This negative movement continued throughout midweek as durable goods orders rose 4%, considerably stronger ...

Mortgage Comments   How SLOW can you GO?  The number that tells us how fast we are growing came out today.  The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) came in at a whopping 1% annualized rate of growth for the US.  This is not good.  In the past, every time the GDP slips below 2%, the economy has fallen i...

Market Comment - Week of August 22nd, 2011 Mortgage bond prices finished near unchanged last week but whipsawed up and down throughout the middle of the week. Rates started off on a bad note Monday in reaction to stronger than expected data. Housing starts, industrial production, and capacity us...

Market Comment - Week of August 15th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose last week, which pushed mortgage interest rates lower. Rates started off on a bad note Monday in reaction to the US debt rating downgrade, the first in history. Stocks took a roller coaster ride surging and falling hundreds of ...

Donna and Rich are dear friends of mine, please keep them in your prayers! Please post comments on the original post.  Thank you so much.Many of you have seen Donna's picture, read her blog, and even been regular commenters on her posts. Her husband, Rich, told me today there have been many email...

Market Comment - Week of August 1st, 2011 Mortgage bond prices rose last week, which pushed mortgage interest rates lower. Rates started off on a bad note Monday as the lack of a debt deal between Congress and the President dominated the headlines. The Treasury auctions generally saw weak foreig...

I haven't been blogging lately,  a change in companies has taken priority and kept me from blogging.  As the dust is settling with my new company American Home Funding I plan on have a much improved blogging system in place with more information and more consistency.  It was a tough decision and ...

Market Comment - Week of June 20th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices fell last week pushing mortgage interest rates slightly higher. There were large swings throughout the week. Rates were pressured higher Tuesday following stronger than expected producer price index data. Retail sales showed a decline...

Mortgage News Market Comment - Week of June 13th, 2011 Mortgage bond prices fell last week pushing mortgage interest rates slightly higher. There were large swings throughout the week. Rates were pressured higher Monday morning. Bonds rallied mid week following Fed Chairman Beneranke's comments a...