Mortgage rates set new record lows, might hold steady next week
Treasury bond yields, which influence the home-loan rates, have surged since Tuesday. Mortgage rates fell for the 10th time in 11 weeks, setting fresh record lows, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. But a rebound in Treasury yields in the…
The other night, I watched a couple episodes of the A&E documentary series Hoarders . For those of you who haven’t seen it, Hoarders is a documentary series that focuses on the struggles of people who suffer from compulsive hoarding. One thing that struck me over and over again…
From Paul Krugman in the NY Times: The Real Story … When Mr. Obama first proposed $800 billion in fiscal stimulus, there were two groups of critics. Both argued that unemployment would stay high — but for very different reasons. One group — the group that got almost all the…
Inc. Magazine Names EnTitle Insurance Company to Its List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Inc. Magazine Names EnTitle Insurance Company to Its List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Three-Year Sales Growth of 60% Earns Company Honors on Inc.’s 500/5000 List
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A couple of quotes from Kathleen Pender at the San Francisco Chronicle: Little support for new home-buyer tax credit “We are not advocating another one. We think it’s important for the market to have time to recover on its own,” says Walter Molony, spokesman for the National Association of Realtors.…
What are we in business to do? Sure, make a living. But for me, that’s not nearly good enough. I need something more. And the thing that’s always kept me inspired are emails like the one I got this morning from a client named Jasmine Krnjetin with Silverton Mortgage…
The summertime swoon in U.S. mortgage rates continues this week, with averages for home loans falling to yet another record low. Click to enlarge Rates began to inch downwards in June, falling 0.37 of a percentage point in 11 weeks in which the 30-year average either set or met…
What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. 401(k) profit sharing 2. Online job application tips 3. Illness and challenges 4. College freshman advice 5. Mortgage decisions 6.…
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Rise The Pending Home Sales Index … rose 5.2 percent to 79.4 based on contracts signed in July from a downwardly revised 75.5 in June, but remains 19.1 percent below July 2009 when it was 98.1. The data reflects contracts and not closings, which…
Prospect Capital Announces 12.3% Year-Over-Year Increase in Net Investment Income for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2010 …
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – August 30, 2010) – Prospect Capital Corporation ( NASDAQ : PSEC ) (“Company” or “Prospect”) today announced financial results for our fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year…