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Mortgage Rates Climb For Second Straight Week
Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 8:12pm. 642 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…
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