Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 10/9/12: With not much to report today as we come out of the Columbus Day Holiday, markets remain relatively unchanged. Mortgage bonds opened a bit higher today after last week’s graduated losses. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that the world economy will grow by 3.3% this year—this is the slowest […]
Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 10/5/12: The Jobs Report came in lower than expectations with the creation of 114,000 new jobs. Given that this is an elections year, it’s not at all surprising that President Obama would be stating that the unemployment rate fell by 0.3% from its previous high of 8.1%. It was shown that […]
Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 10/4/12: In anticipation of Friday’s Jobs Report mortgage bonds opened slightly lower this morning. Weekly initial Jobless Claims were 2,000 more than the expected 365,000 but lower than economists’ expectations of 370,000. U.S. Firms’ layoffs were almost 5% higher in September coming out of August. The labor market continues to struggle […]
Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 10/3/12: “Will the Jobs Report affect mortgage rates?” Preceded by Friday’s Jobs Report, the ADP Report reflects private sector job growth. According to the ADP, private sector jobs came in at 162,000—almost 30,000 above the expected 133,000. We shall take that information with a grain of salt. Why? For the past […]
Seattle Mortgage Rates Today 10/2/12: “Well, it’s about time Spain!” Upbeat news out of Europe should be pressuring bonds lower; however, the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing 3 continues to purchase bonds and keep them stable. Spain is on the verge of accepting a bailout form the European Central Bank. Expectations of the bailout pushed global […]
