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6 hrs ago | The Stockmasters

Mortgage Rates Increase after Hitting 30 Year Low

Posted December 11th, 2009 by theStockMasters... in Housing, Mortgages & Money Hope many of you took advantage of 30 year rates at the record low of 4.71% last week , as of today its back up to 4.81% according to Feddie Mac and that's if you can qualify.A Mortgage rates are starting to slide toward 5% in a hurry and we may have seen a bottom in 30 ...

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

21 hrs ago | Seeking Alpha

U.S. Government's New Housing Bubble

As readers here have heard regularly, it is absolutely certain that there will be another down-leg for the U.S. housing market, beginning no later than spring of next year.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Motley Fool

The New Subprime Lender

If you haven't heard of the Federal Housing Administration , you probably will soon.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, 9

Housing Wire

Deutsche Sees New Yeara s Surge of Fannie, Freddie Buyouts

The pace of buyouts in delinquent loans in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities portfolios is set to boom in 2010 as new accountancy rules come into effect, changing the nature of securitization.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Housing Wire

Prices Up For Second Straight Quarter in Freddie Index

Home prices increased for the second straight quarter in Freddie Mac a s Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index .

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Related Topix: Housing, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Selling, Foreclosures

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Washington Business Journal

Home values rise again

Freddie Mac 's quarterly report on home prices shows they rose for the second consecutive quarter in all but two of the regions in tracks.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Housing Wire

Fannie Prepays Plunge a Unexpecteda 6%: BarCap

The prepayment rate among Fannie Mae 30-year notes slipped 6% "unexpectedly" after the government-sponsored entity suspended buyouts related to the Home Affordable Modification Program , according to monthly commentary by Barclays Capital .

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sat Dec 05, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Ticking Prime Bomb: Fannie Mae Monthly Summary October 2009

Decades from now, the summer of 2008 will likely be remembered to mark the turning point where legislative blundering took an otherwise serious financial crisis and molested it into an epic financial collapse.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Banking

Thu Dec 03, 2009

MarketWatch

Record-low mortgage rates beckon home buyers

The U.S. government's efforts to revive the housing market have helped push mortgage rates down to record levels, making homes more affordable for buyers hunting for a good deal in a soft market.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Consulting, Financial Markets

Tue Dec 01, 2009

WXIA-TV Atlanta

30-Year Mortgages Match All-Time Low

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.78 percent last week, matching the lowest level on record since Freddie Mac started keeping track in 1971.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

SmartMoney.com

The Comeback Kids: The Interviews

Legg Mason Value Trust SMARTMONEY: Crazy ride? How do you describe 2008? MILLER : Dreadful, a disaster.

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Related Topix: Financial Services

Mon Nov 30, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Freddie Mac Announces the Issuance of a New Three-Year Reference Notes(R) Security

Freddie Mac announced today that it plans to issue a new three-year USD Reference Notes security, CUSIP number 3137EACG2, due on January 9, 2013.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, 9, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Seeking Alpha

The Lehman Bankruptcy: Should All Big Banks in Trouble Fail?

After toiling to cobble together an industry solution to prevent a Lehman failure, the government, in the person of Hank Paulson, flanked by Geithner and Bernanke, determined that Lehman would file for bankruptcy.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Financial Services, Investment Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Fannie Mae, Prison

Housing Wire

MBS Spreads to Widen, Rates to Rise in 2010: Smith Breeden

Although demand should keep asset-backed securities spreads tight into Q110, wider spreads in mortgage-backed securities will follow the Federal Reserve 's exit of a major MBS purchase program in 2010, according to bi-monthly commentary by global asset management firm Smith Breeden Associate s. Agency MBS performed strongly in October, as the Fed ...

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Motley Fool

Banking on Clues From the FHA

The Federal Housing Administration issued the FY 2009 mortgage insurance fund report earlier in November.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Earth Times

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Bank of America, MGIC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Hewlett-Packard

Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets.

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Related Topix: Hewlett Packard, HP, Mgic Invt Corp Wis, Banking, Insurance, Bank of America, Financial Services, Computers, Fannie Mae

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Sacramento Business Journal

30-year mortgage rate plummets to record low

The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.78 percent this week, matching the lowest level on record since Freddie Mac started keeping track in 1971.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Housing Wire

Freddie Mac Files $595M Claim Relating to TBW Loans

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac warned in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing this week it is working to avoid "significant" losses - potentially more than $1bn - related to a now-bankrupt lender/servicer. Freddie estimated its net potential exposure to loan repurchase obligations of bankrupt Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Washington Business Journal

Freddie may take big hit from failed firms

Freddie Mac could be exposed to more than $1 billion in potential losses from the failure of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ocala, FL, Ocala Metro, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Motley Fool

Do Blue-Chip Penny Stocks Exist?

Penny-stock lovers are having a big laugh at the expense of blue-chip investors.

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Related Topix: Blue Chip Value Fund, Financial Services, Banking, Citigroup, Fannie Mae, Manufacturing, Chemicals, Wells Fargo

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