Month: March 2011

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Improving conditions in Japan and the LACK of news from the Middle East has investors shifting out of the U.S. Safe Haven. During Crisis investors shifted into the U.S. Bonds and Treasuries as a Safe Haven trade. This HELPED to push rates lower. In the exact opposite […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch:  During the financial crisis the Treasury Department racked up $142B in debt.  Now to help STABILIZE the economy the Treasury states selling around $10B per month will improve conditions.  We discussed this morning, is this truly to help stabilize the economy?  Is this the right time to […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: United Nations approving a No-Fly zone over Libya to halt Gadaffi from attacking his own people through air-strikes. This has funds shifting out of the U.S. Safe Haven trade. Along with this news, Japan is “cautiously optimistic” that the nuclear reactor situation has been stabilized and will […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Buy on the HYPE & SELL on the news. Japan able to somewhat stabilize the nuclear reactor and this has been taken as good news as the stock market reacted optimistically. Money moves into the U.S. bonds & treasuries as a Safe Haven during uncertainty. As the […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Nuclear Meltdown in Japan has the Market moving into the U.S. Safe Haven helping bonds and Mortgage Rates dip to the best levels so far in 2011. The entire world is watching with concern for the unfolding events in Japan which has been headlining news by the […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Japan headlines global news as growing concerns over the impacts of the nuclear reactors and radiation. This has sent Japan’s nikkei stock exchange sharply lower, 17% loss which is the biggest two day loss since their stock market crash in 1987. This has shifted global investors to […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Japan continues to feel the aftershock of the Tsunami and its devastation. Here in the U.S., the bond market is on close Watch. Why? Going back in history, Kobe, Japan 1995, a major earthquake shook the country. At that time in order to rebuild Japan had to […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: We send our thoughts and prayers to those affected by the earthquakes and Tsunami in Japan. The market is all over the board today. Bonds are being pressured higher. In what normally would cause investors to seek the U.S. “Safe Haven” during a natural disaster, we see […]