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2013
Retail Sales Increase Improving economic growth in the US was negative for mortgage rates this week. This was mostly offset by weakness in Europe and Japan, however. As a result, mortgage rates ended the week just a little higher. The biggest US economic report released this week was Retail Sale...
02/15/2013
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In a week packed with big economic news, investors feared that the trend toward higher mortgage rates seen this month would continue. The risk that the Fed might signal a scaling back of its MBS purchases concerned investors. In the end, though, a neutral Fed statement and an unexpected increa...
02/01/2013
WASHINGTON – As part of a broad effort to strengthen the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund), FHA Commissioner Carol Galante announced a series of changes to be issued this week that will allow the agency to better manage risk and further strengthen th...
02/01/2013