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Moneytalks is Interest.com's weekly consumer-oriented mortgage magazine. We wrap up the prior week's mortgage-related market activity and movements in one concise, easy-to-read report to save you time, and we preview the coming week's economic highlights. Moneytalks also gives you charts and graphs that tell you at a glance where key interest rates currently are and where they've been. An economic calendar will keep you alert to upcoming events and statistics, many of them from U.S. government agencies, that could move the markets and affect your personal financial decisions.
Below are links to the most-recent Moneytalks magazine plus an archive of articles dating back at least one year. Questions? Comments? Please email Interest.com's editorial staff at edit@interest.com. We'd love to hear from you.
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 10-21-05
Mortgage Rates Remain at 15-Month Highs, Concerns about inflation, the sworn enemy of fixed-rate assets such as bonds, kept pressure on U.S. Treasury security yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices. Economic news - a mixed bag at best -- didn't affect Treasuries as adve..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, October 21, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 10-14-05
Inflation Fears Send Mortgage Rates Up, Ongoing concerns about inflation and the rate hikes necessary to control it added up to one tough week for U.S. Treasury securities. Bond prices fell sharply and their yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, are hovering near the hig..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, October 14, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 10-07-05
Mortgage Rates Hit Two-Month Highs, Comments by a host of Fed bank presidents, a weak report on September manufacturing conditions and the Employment Report for last month provided bond traders with multiple reasons to sell, and sell they did. The price of U.S. Treasury securities tumb..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, October 07, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 09-30-05
Inflation Fears Send Mortgage Rates Up, In spite of some economic reports that would normally support U.S. Treasury securities, there were more sellers than buyers in the bond pits. Concerns about inflation, which erodes the value of fixed rate assets, kept the pressure on, as did the spec..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, September 30, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 09-23-05
Mortgage Rates on Hold, Another Fed rate hike and anxiety about Hurricane Rita drove prices of U.S. Treasury securities higher. Meanwhile, yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, edged back down from their highest levels in a month. Although the Federal Open..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, September 23, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 09-16-05
Mortgage Rates on the Rise, It’s been a volatile week in the bond pits what with falling energy prices, mixed economic reports and concerns about the Sept. 20 meeting of the Fed. U.S. Treasury securities fell one day and rallied the next in a rapidly changing economic environme..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, September 16, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 09-09-05
Mortgage Rates Begin to Creep Up
Just as mortgage rates edged down on bond-friendly news the week ended Sept. 2, they reversed course during the holiday-shortened week. A strong report from the service sector, inflationary news on wages, and onlyLower mortgage rates during the week ended Sept 2 resulted in a surge in applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Applications to purchase rose 6.1 percent, while refis climbed 7.7 percent. The rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage (..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, September 09, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 09-02-05
Mortgage Rates Tumble, A tepid Employment Report for August paired with additional weak economic data and rising energy prices sent U.S. Treasury securities prices soaring. Yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, fell to their lowest levels in two months., ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, September 02, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 08-26-05
Mortgage Rates Leaning Toward the Downside, Bond-supportive economic news kept buying in U.S. Treasury securities active, and as a result their yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, edged down. Since mortgage lenders use yields as a guide to set rates, they were able to bump ..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, August 26, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 08-19-05
Treasuries Volatile But Mortgage Rates Edge Down, U.S. Treasury securities yields were up one day and down the next as mixed economic data kept bond traders busy. A strong regional manufacturing report and a temporary dip in oil prices spurred selling in Treasuries, with prices falling and yields, w..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 08-12-05
Strong Employment Numbers Keep Mortgage Rates High, U.S. Treasury securities continued to sell after the strong July employment gain, sending yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, to four-month highs. But a rate hike by the Fed that retained its “measured” approach to increases halte..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, August 12, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 08-05-05
Mortgage Rates Climb, A steady flow of bullish economic reports had their way with U.S. Treasury securities. Strength in manufacturing, employment, and the Gross Domestic Product signaled continued rate hikes from the Fed and spurred strong selling. Bond prices plunged an..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, August 05, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 07-29-05
Mortgage Rates Remain at Elevated Levels, U.S. Treasury prices waffled this week, rising as concerns ebbed about the negative impact on Treasuries from the revalued Chinese yuan, then pulling back again on upbeat economic data. The housing industry and the Fed's Beige Book both painted a..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, July 29, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 07-22-05
Mortgage Rates Creep Up, Prices on U.S. Treasury securities remained relatively stable early in the week in spite of concerns about what Fed chief Alan Greenspan would say on Capitol Hill, impending rate hikes and the huge trade deficit. Capital flows data for May showed tha..
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| Article XML Feed | | - Friday, July 29, 2005 |
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Mortgage Rate Update for Week Ending 07-15-05
Mortgage Rates Hold at Higher Levels, Carolyn Siegel, ..
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