For the Week Ending May 23, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Last month's Fed meeting minutes show officials are in no hurry to move interest rates up or down, though investors are looking for a rate cut by year's end. Recent
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05/23/2019
For the Week Ending May 16, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Trade tensions with China increased this week, causing stocks to fall and bonds to improve. The shift in bond prices helped move mortgage rates down slightly. After
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05/17/2019
For the Week Ending May 9, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Tweets by President Trump reignited investor concerns over the trade talks with China. Stocks dropped from recent highs as investors' anxiety increased. Although the
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05/09/2019
For the Week Ending May 2, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. The Fed's preferred inflation gauge, the core personal consumption expenditures index, was flat for the month of March and up only 1.6% year-over-year. The lack of in
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05/02/2019
For the Week Ending April 25, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Stocks continue to hit record highs, helped by strong corporate earnings. Money moving from bonds back into stocks can continue to pressure rates higher. New order
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04/25/2019
For the Week Ending April 19, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Recent optimism in the global economy has been helped by upbeat economic data in China. This has pressured mortgage rates to move higher this week. Retail sales s
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04/18/2019
For the Week Ending April 12, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. The consumer price index rose less than forecast in March.A key measure of inflation, this reading supportsthe Fed's decision not to raise rates this year. Produce
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04/12/2019
For the Week Ending April 4, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Signaling a possible slowdown in the economy, retail sales dropped 0.2% in February. Slower economic activity is likely to keep the Fed from raising rates. Rates
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04/04/2019
For the Week Ending March 29, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. Global economic concerns have sent bond prices soaring this week as investors move to safety. Improved bond prices have helped bring mortgage rates lower. The 4t
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04/01/2019
For the Week Ending March 21, 2019 Please enjoy this quick update on what happened this week in the housing and financial markets. The Fed did not raise policy rates at this month's FOMC meeting. Based on Fed projections, we likely won't see another Fed rate hike until 2020. Jobless claims fel
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03/21/2019
