Articles, tagged with "mortgage rates", page 1

Property loan approvals in the UK are at their highest since March 2008 and will help the real estate recovery in 2010, it is claimed. The Bank of England's latest survey of credit conditions in the UK shows that lenders reported an increase in credit ...

This marks the third week in a row that mortgage rates have moved in one direction or another by more than .4 points. This is highly unusual. For some perspective for the 12 weeks from March 20th to June 5 mortgage rates held steady between 5.85 and 6.0...

The bad news about the economy is inescapable these days. Consumer confidence is at an all time low and it's easier to follow a tennis match than keep up with the daily rise and fall of the stock market. Even though everyone is carefully watching the bo...

Recently the news has been dominated by developments with the 700 billion dollar bailout package, and rightfully so. 700 billion is an astronomical sum of money. The first problem is that the 700 billion dollar bailout adds a huge amount of money to the...

The general arguments concerning the bailout have gone something along the lines of Anti Bailout : "The taxpayers should not have to foot a 700 billion dollar bill to bail out Wall Street" Pro Bailout : "But if taxpayers do not bail out Wall Street ...