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Rates for 30-year home loans fell back this week after soaring to the highest level in seven months a week earlier. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.38 percent this week, down from 5.59 percent a week earlier, mortgage company Freddie...
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We've watched AIG, Lehman Brothers, banks, insurance and mortgage companies fail. Then America looked on as the Big Three went to Washington in their private jets to ask for a bailout. Ford said they didn't really need one, but just wanted to tag...
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Stocks higher after release of employment, retail data The Dow Jones industrial average tacked on a modest 32 points Thursday, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up to reach its highest level since November. Investors welcomed a drop in jobless...
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The average 30-year rate rose to 5.29 from 4.91 percent a week earlier, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday...That's quite a jump," said Donald Rissmiller, chief economist at New York-based Strategas Research Partners. "The more rates go up, the...
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The Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 175 points yesterday, erasing most of the previous day's rally as a jump in government bond yields fanned concerns that higher interest rates will sap strength from the economy. A steep drop in the price of...
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The sale, as early as Tuesday, could be about $1 billion through a trust organized by Deutsche Bank, the source said. Freddie Mac (FRE.P) and rival Fannie Mae (FNM.P) have been the main sources of funding for multifamily housing with the $700 billion...
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Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages fell slightly in the week ending May 21, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday...A week ago, 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.86 percent with an average 0.7 points.
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Rates on fixed-rate mortgages rose slightly this week, while rates on adjustable-rate mortgages fell, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates, released on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.86% for the week...
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Rates on 30-year mortgages inched up this week after matching an all-time record low a week earlier. Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said Thursday that average rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 4.84 percent this week, down from an average...
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Freddie Mac is paying out more than $700,000 to the family of David Kellermann, the mortgage finance company's former acting chief financial officer who died last week in an apparent suicide, the company disclosed Thursday. The McLean, Va.-based company...
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