Better Mortgage Rate News
Yesterday: 2008-05-16
The latest mortgage articles are presented below, with older discoveries located in the mortgage news archive.
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Santander AAA Bond Investors Hurt by Spanish Loan Delinquencies - Bloomberg
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish mortgage defaults are triggering losses for holders of AAA rated bonds sold by Banco Santander SA , the country's largest lender. Investors in the highest grade portions of 2.8 billion euros ($4.33 billion) of bonds ...
2008-05-16 05:40:00 -
Mortgage rates down for week - Tacoma News Tribune
WASHINGTON – Rates on 30-year mortgages fell down this week to their lowest point in a month. It was welcome news to would-be home buyers. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.01 percent ...
2008-05-16 12:46:00 -
Australian Mortgage Market Shows Signs of Improving, RBA Says - Bloomberg
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Australia's market for securities backed by residential mortgages, which ground to a standstill last year amid the global credit squeeze, shows signs of improving, said Guy Debelle , a Reserve Bank assistant governor. ``In ...
2008-05-15 09:55:00 -
Business, in brief - Los Angeles Times
Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.01% this week, down from 6.05% last week and the lowest since mid-April, when rates averaged 5.88%, mortgage company Freddie Mac said. Five-year adjustable-rate mortgages dropped to 5.57%, from 5.67 ...
2008-05-15 11:56:00 -
Orleans Energy Announces Record First Quarter 2008 Results - Market Wire
Production in the first quarter averaged 3,784 barrels of oil equivalent ("boe") per day, an increase of 46% over the first quarter of 2007 (2,583 boe per day) and a 21% increase over the preceding fourth quarter of 2007 (3,132 boe per day). Orleans ...
2008-05-15 01:19:00 -
Here are highlights from Thursday's Analyst Blog: - PR Inside
Multifamily fundamentals are holding up in most markets across the U.S. Landlords are slightly raising rents while maintaining high occupancy levels. On a portfolio-wide basis, Apartment Investment & Management (NYSE: AIV), or AIMCO registered decent ...
2008-05-16 03:02:00 -
BNZ Weekly By Chief Economist Tony Alexander - Scoop
It has been another good week for exporters with the NZD falling to 77.6 cents following weaker than expected retailing numbers this morning. All the evidence shows that after four and a half years of raising then maintaining high interest rates the ...
2008-05-15 06:05:00 -
Barclays keeps quiet on rights issue - Herald
Barclays continues to keep investors guessing as to whether it will make a capital call despite yesterday writing down £1.7bn from the value of assets linked to the credit crunch. The bank irritated some analysts with a lack of detail about the ...
2008-05-15 04:40:00 -
Refinancing puts your money to work - Herald News
There are two primary reasons to refinance a mortgage: to get more desirable rate and terms, or to extract cash from the home’s equity. Rate-and-term refinancing pays off one loan with the proceeds from the new loan, using the same property as ...
2008-05-15 05:30:00 -
Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Apartment Investment & Management ... - MSN MoneyCentral
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NA O.N. ( DB ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=4579 Here are highlights from Thursday's ...
2008-05-16 04:07:00 -
The average Kiwi really is better off - Stuff
People better off. We've recently been bombarded by tales of average Kiwi families battling with rising mortgages and sharply higher prices for food and petrol. But is it really the case that New Zealanders are worse off now than they were a few ...
2008-05-16 03:41:00 -
At FHA, a Surprising Result Underpins a Big Change (Washington Post)
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2008-05-16 01:22:06 -
World economy to grow 1.8% in 2008: UN (The Times of India)
The US economists have said that the deepening credit crisis in major market economies triggered by the US-led slump in housing prices will pose risks to economic growth in both developed and developing countries.
2008-05-16 01:42:15 -
Restaurants Staying Steady (WCBD-TV Charleston)
New numbers are out showing a rise in the jobless rate in South Carolina. State officials say the unemployment rate went up two-tenths of one percentage points from March rising to 5.9 percent.
2008-05-16 08:03:20 -
Mortgage rates lowest in month (Knoxville News Sentinel)
WASHINGTON - Rates on 30-year mortgages edged down this week to their lowest point in a month, a spot of welcome news to would-be home buyers.
2008-05-16 09:11:04