yield: ARM's are on their way back
- 07/02/07 02:36 AM
I'm going to take a moment to get technical and talk about the yield curve on US Government bonds, bills and notes; specifically, I'm going to address what an inverted yield curve is and why it's important to you.The yield curve is a graph that plots yields (that's an interest-rate adjusted return on a bond) vs. maturity length for the bonds that the U.S. Government issues when it borrows money.Here's a peek at the yield curve as reported by yahoo's finance site this morning: Not very exciting, as curves go. It's almost flat -- it shows that the market expects about the … (1 comments)
yield: Understanding mortgage rates: fixed rate loans
- 06/15/07 08:56 AM
(This article is the first of a three-part series on understanding different types of mortgage interest rates.)To understand interest rates in long-term fixed rate loans, the first thing to do is tune out the media noise around the Fed and the Prime Rate. Long-term mortgage interest rates are based on the bond market -- specifically, how the bond market is trading the U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds. In short, when the price for bonds goes up, long-term interest rates go down (or, to put it in terms that you'll understand by the end of this article, long-term mortgage rates move up and … (2 comments)
I'm going to take a moment to get technical and talk about the yield curve on US Government bonds, bills and notes; specifically, I'm going to address what an inverted yield curve is and why it's important to you.The yield curve is a graph that plots yields (that's an interest-rate adjusted return on a bond) vs. maturity length for the bonds that the U.S. Government issues when it borrows money.Here's a peek at the yield curve as reported by yahoo's finance site this morning:
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