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04May2012
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates Falling On 115,000 Non-Farm Payrolls Figure

Mortgage rates are falling after the April jobs report It's a Wall Street quirk, though --one that should self-correct shortly.

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27Apr2012
Author
Karen Lawson
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Mortgage Market Headlines
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Pending Home Sales Index Crosses 100; Job Growth In 30 States

The Pending Home Sales Index crossed 100; Unemployment Rates are dropping; Existing Homes are rising.

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06Apr2012
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates Dropping On 120,000 Non-Farm Payroll Figure

Mortgage rates are down after the March jobs report despite 18 straight months of growth and 3.6 million jobs made since 2010. Exploit this.

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03Feb2012
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates Spike On Blow-Out Jobs Figures, Drop In Unemployment Rate

Mortgage rates are spiking right now as Wall Street begins to bet *with* the economy instead of against it. January's jobs report may be a tipping point.

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06Oct2011
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates May Have Bottomed; Jobs Report Expects 60,000 Net New Jobs

Conforming, FHA, and USDA mortgage rates are rising. Will Friday's jobs report make them spike?

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08Sep2011
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Job Stimulus Package Threatens Lowest Mortgage Rates

The jobs recovery appears to have stalled. For rate shoppers nationwide, it's good news. Mortgage rates are dropping.

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11Aug2011
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates Sink After Strong Jobs Report

Is the job market better than they say? Mortgage rates sank after an unexpectedly-strong July jobs report.

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04Feb2011
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Mortgage Rates Rise Sharply On January’s Jobs Report

Unemployment Rates are dropping and the economy is adding jobs. Mortgage rates will hit their highest levels of the year. It's time to lock a mortgage rate.

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04Dec2009
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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The Jobs Report : Good For The Economy, Awful For Mortgage Rates

According to the government, the U.S. economy shed just 11,000 jobs in November, a 100,000 job improvement from October and the lowest tally since June 2007. Furthermore, the national Unemployment Rate dropped to 10.0 percent.The data is building economic optimism on Wall Street, forcing a retracement of the flight-to-quality bets made since October. These safe-haven bond buys dropped rates to their lowest levels of all-time last week. This week, not so much.There's a massive MBS sell-off in process. Rates unwound 3 weeks of improvement in the first 3 minutes of trading.

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24Nov2009
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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Using Consumer Confidence To Guess Where Mortgage Rates Are Going

Many analysts believe that confidence correlates to spending. Looking at the trendline chart, they've got good reason -- there relationship between sales and confidence appears to be direct. But there's some analysis worth doing, too.

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04Sep2009
Author
Dan Green
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Things That Change Mortgage Rates
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How Mortgage Rates Are Reacting To The August Jobs Report

Despite ongoing job losses and a rising Unemployment Rate, the jobs report reinforces the notion that the recession may be ending soon, if it hasn't already.

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