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What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : September 12, 2011
Mortgage markets improved last week as a weakening Eurozone and questions about the U.S. economy sparked a global flight-to-quality. Conforming and FHA mortgage rates improved for the second week in a row.  The storylines should sound familiar by now. They are the same ones that have dictated the path of mortgage rates since April 2011. As a result, according to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates across Arizona and nationwide are now at an all-time low.
Not in 50 years of tracking mortgage rates has pricing been so favorable.  Last week's holiday-shortened week didn't begin well for rate shoppers in Scottsdale. Rates moved higher on the expectation of additional economic stimulus from two separate parts of the government -- the Federal Reserve and Congress.   Wall Street held high hopes for Ben Bernanke's address to the Economic Club of Minnesota, and for the President's address to a joint session of Congress. It expected Fed Chief Bernanke to reveal clues about the Fed's next move; and it expected the President to unleash a massive jobs creation program that would put more Americans to work.
Both outcomes would have harmed mortgage rates as money flowed into stocks. However, neither happened. Bernanke kept mum on the Federal Reserve's options and the ... more

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