Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Bank of America, MGIC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Hewlett-Packard
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Bank of America, MGIC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Hewlett-Packard
Mortgage rates fell this week, with the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dropping to match an all-time low of 4.78%, according to Freddie Mac's (FRE) weekly survey of mortgage rates.
McLEAN, Va. - Freddie Mac reports that average rates for 30-year fixed mortgages have matched a record low of 4.78 percent this week. Rates for 30-year mortgages hit an all-time low the week ending April 30. Since then, rates have hovered near 5 percent, spurring refinancing activity and home sales.
Home sales up, but housing recovery likely to be rocky, uneven
Housing prices in Redding continued to fall in the third quarter of 2009, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's house price index (HPI) reported Tuesday.Values in Redding - which includes Anderson, Shasta Lake and unincorporated Shasta County - fell 10.14 percent from a year ago and 2.91 percent compared to the second quarter.Housing prices in Redding have dropped 4.89 percent over the past five ...
The East Baton Rouge Mortgage Finance Authority has adapted its current multimillion-dollar mortgage loan program to help qualified Baton Rouge homebuyers take advantage of federal tax credits extended to mid-2010.
(Updates with record low mortgage rates.)
It's time to thank the banks.
Matches previous low set in April.
Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.78% this week, matching an all-time low. Two other loan types also fell to record lows.
A judge has cleared the way Monday for a Canadian company to pay $583,000 for the Pontiac Silverdome, built for $55.7 million in 1975 to house the NFL's Detroit Lions.
Announcing Foolanthropy 2009: Think globally, act locally.
MANSFIELD - U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, and state and local officials gathered Tuesday to break ground on a hazardous waste cleanup project eyed for years on the Mansfield-Foxboro line.
SUNDAY, Nov. 29 Date several airlines will add 10-dollar surcharges on most of their tickets. TUESDAY, Dec. 1 NEW YORK _ The Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for November, 10 a.m. WASHINGTON _ National Association of Realtors... Institute for Supply Management - NEW YORK - Business - United States - Manufacturing
Average rate falls to 4.78% on 30-year mortgage
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Ever since the Great Depression, regulators have tried to prevent bank runs. As Congress inches toward financial reform, it is failing to address the modern equivalent of this old problem: runs on the market.