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Mortgage Rates Drop Despite Mixed Financial Data

Mortgage rates are enjoying their slide to record lows for the sixth consecutive week, the U.S. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday. Rates have gone lower, despite fears the cessation of a mortgage securities purchasing program by the Federal Reserve would trigger a rise in interest rates. In the latest weekly survey, Freddie Mac said interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate contracts …

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Mortgage brokers to be fingerprinted, registered

mortgage loan originators will have to be fingerprinted and sign up to a central registry to do business in future, according to new rules issued by the Federal Reserve and other regulators. Mortgage - Business - Mortgage broker - Federal Reserve System - Financial Services

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Mortgage Rates Hit Another Low: 4.54 Percent

Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level on record for the fifth time in six weeks, making homebuying and refinancing the most attractive in decades for those who can get loans. Freddie Mac says the average rate for 30-year fixed loans this week was 4.54 percent, down from 4.56 last week. That’s the lowest since Freddie Mac began tracking rates in 1971.

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Mortgage rates fall to 4.54%

Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level on record for the fifth time in six weeks.

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Mortgage-Bond Spreads Surpass Lows Reached During Fed Buying

Yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage securities that guide U.S. home-loan rates reached record lows relative to 10-year Treasuries, as investors search for higher returns amid limited refinancing by borrowers.

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Mortgage brokers to be fingerprinted and registered

mortgage loan originators will have to be fingerprinted and sign up to a central registry to do business in future, according to final rules issued on Wednesday by the Federal Reserve and other regulators.

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Low mortgage rates give borrowers a 2nd bite at apple

OK, so I was wrong. Everything in the first quarter of the year pointed to a slow rise in mortgage rates. It looked as if you hadn’t taken advantage of the refinance craze in the spring of 2009, when rates for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage touched 4.75 percent, then you could forget it. The Federal Reserve’s

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Fed Assets Reach Record $2.35 Trillion on Mortgage Purchases

May 20 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve’s assets rose 0.6 percent to a record $2.35 trillion as the central bank recorded purchases of mortgage-backed securities on its balance sheet.

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U.S mortgage rates near record low

Reuters | U.S. 30-year mortgage rates fell in the past week to the lowest level since early December, near record lows, with shorter-term home loans at new all-time lows, home funding company Freddie Mac said on Thursday.

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Summary Box: Mortgage sale details divide Fed

LOTS OF VIEWS: Federal Reserve officials at their April meeting were divided over when the Fed should start shedding some of its vast portfolio of mortgage securities. There’s also the challenge of doing it in a way that doesn’t jack up mortgage rates.

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