Mortgage Rates Drop To Lowest Levels In 2014
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage dropped from 3.93 to 3.80 over the past week, the lowest level since May 2013 and 67 basis points below the 4.47…
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The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage dropped from 3.93 to 3.80 over the past week, the lowest level since May 2013 and 67 basis points below the 4.47…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has dropped from 4.23 percent to 4.12 percent over the past three weeks and is back to within 2 basis points…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage jumped from 4.12 to 4.23 percent over the past week, the highest rate since the beginning of May and the biggest…
With indications of a rebound in economic activity in the second quarter and “sufficient underlying strength” to support ongoing improvement in the labor market, Federal Reserve officials have raised the…
Citing a rebound in economic activity while noting the housing sector remains slow (despite historically low interest rates and rising inventories), the Fed has announced another cut to its bond…
While mortgage credit conditions in the U.S. remain “generally tight,” and applications for purchase mortgages remain “tepid,” according to the Fed, signs of easing continue to emerge, including indications of…
While the U.S. economy grew by an anemic 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014, “information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that growth…
As we noted last month, the minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s October meeting suggested that the Fed was “likely to trim their monthly purchase of $85 billion in…
“Stocks soared Friday, propelling the Dow Jones industrials up more than 180 points, after the Federal Reserve, acknowledging that the stock market’s plunge posed a threat to the economy, slashed…