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Low Mortgage Rates The One Bright Spot About a Weak Economy

The economy is still weak and might be weak for several more years. The one bright spot to a weak economy is low mortgage rates for mortgage loans. If you’re buying a home or refinancing your mortgage mortgage rates current … Continue reading

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Fed Meeting, Bernanke Press Conference and Interest Rates

The most recent Fed meeting ended and sometime new happened for the very first time. The Fed Charmin, Ben Bernanke had a press conference which lasted almost a full hour. Some of the things the Fed said from the committee’s … Continue reading

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Fed Stimulus To Continue Despite EQ2 Ending

There has been talk recently that the Federal Reserve plan to continue to keep interest rates and mortgage rates down even though the planned $600 billion program to buy U.S. bonds is supposed to have ended in the first quarter. The Fed’s plan … Continue reading

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