Year: 2011

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Mortgage Rates trying to find some stability with a lack of news from the Middle East and Improving conditions in Japan. We have been speaking quite a bit of the “Safe Haven” trade for investors when crisis erupts around the world and how the Bonds and Mortgage […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Concerns in the Euro topping financial media and the stock market. Uncertainty continues to grow over Greece, Ireland and Portugal all part of the Euro and their abilities to repay or face default. Portugal yesterday attempted and failed to shore up their budget which led to the […]

Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Concerns coming from Japan as the Nuclear contamination has hit their water supply. This has pushed some investors into the “Safe Haven” trade. This comes on the announcement Japan will need north of $300 Billion to rebuild and recover. Wall Street and the global markets are watching […]

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 […]