Seattle Real Estate Mortgage Rates Today 11/19/10
Seattle / Bellevue Real Estate Mortgage Rate Watch: Where will rates go? Well that all remains on economic data from the United States and Foreign Markets for the moment. In the now, economic which is good will pressure rates higher as the word inflation emerges. Globally, China is really in the now news, they are tightening their lending to raise capital in the banking systems to fight inflation which is at a two year high at 4.4%. How does this impact a homeowner?
Example: If you had a $1,000,000 to invest in bonds, where would you invest today? The U.S. bond market will be kept low due to quantitave easing. However investments over seas are paying higher yields. Simply you would invest where the highest rate of return is. This is case in todays market. Investors are looking for greater returns which causes our yields to move higher pressuring Mortgage Rates to also move higher. There is more to this recipe for rates but this has been where most of the pressure is coming from.
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