June 2009 
There are 3 blog entries for June 2009.
Eugene Oregon - Mortgage News
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 at 1:58pm. 340 Views, 4 Comments.
Rates are little better today over last Friday, as shown below. The stock markets aren't as happy as they were last week, and the FOMC meeting I referred to in last Friday's email didn't seem to make much of an impact. Therefore, the bond market is doing better as of now. The auctions of long term government debt were well received earlier this week, which again helped the bond market make some gains.
That's it in a nutshell, but I'd like to talk about a couple of rumors and reports out there in medialand that buyers may be asking you about. A possible $15,000 tax credit for all buyers, not just first-timers has been proposed, but is definitely not even close to being approved. When I tried to calculate what that would cost the government in revenue…
Mortgage Rates Climb For Second Straight Week
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 8:12pm. 417 Views, 5 Comments.
Yes! Rates are up from last Friday, but they are down from earlier this week. The Bond market took a pretty good beating from a few of the economic reports that came out, indicating that things might be getting better. But, the big hurt was that several of the foreign buyers of US debt
( US debt is in fact our bond market), indicated that they had little confidence in our ability to repay that debt. So, China , Russia , the European market, etc said they “may not” invest in our bond market. This drove the price of bonds down, and likewise, mortgage rates up.
Is this starting to make sense to you in how it all works? After all, when the sub prime implosion hit, the banks no longer wanted to buy mortgage backed securities, and most of them actually…
Eugene Mortgate Rates Up This Week
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 12:22am. 320 Views, 6 Comments.
Not a good week here in loan land! (See rates below). The bond market has taken some pretty big hits all this week, due primarily to investors taking advantage of the profits to be gained from the great run up in bond pricing over the past few weeks. The investors have sold off their bonds at higher prices and have moved these assets to the stock market. Please understand that there is far more to it than that, but in laymen's terms that's essentially what is taking place.
The other side of that equation is the stock market making some gains.This is happening because many of the economic reports coming in are indicating the presence of that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, as far as the recession is concerned. However, that light may, in…
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