This week is extremely busy in terms of economic data scheduled for release and will likely be another active week for mortgage rates. The number of releases is actually irrelevant due to the importance of the some of the reports. There are eight economic releases scheduled for the week in additi
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01/26/2009
This holiday-shortened week brings us the release of only one monthly economic report for the markets to digest and it is not considered to be of high importance. This will likely leave the stock markets to be a major influence on bond trading and mortgage rates a good part of the week. Whether t
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01/19/2009
This week brings us the release of five pieces of economic data to digest. There is no relevant data scheduled for release tomorrow or Tuesday, but there is very important data scheduled for release each of the three remaining days.December's Retail Sales data is the first important data and it c
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01/12/2009
This week bring us the release of only two monthly reports that are relevant to the bond market and mortgage rates. However, in addition to those two reports, we also will see the minutes from the last FOMC meeting and a couple of Treasury auctions that may influence bond trading and possibly mor
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01/04/2009