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12 hours ago ago from Rita Kerins - Chicago Realtor

The Federal Open Market Committee meets today for the last time in 2009. It's a 2-day meeting and the Fed is expected to leave the Fed Funds Rate near 0.000 percent. But that doesn't mean mortgage rates won't change. See, a major misperception among the public is that the Federal Reserve sets mortgage rates. That's false. Mortgage rates are based on the price of mortgage-backed bonds. As an example, since 2000, the Fed Funds ...

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A must read: “Why Interest Rates Will Almost Certainly Rise in 2010″

22 hours ago ago from InvestmentWatch

quote Interest rates, artifically suppressed by the Federal Reserve and China, are about to start rising, and will continue rising for a generation. On Christmas Eve 2009, I wish I could parrot the Party Line that interest rates and mortgage rates will stay low for essentially ever, but that would require lying. The truth is the drivers of super-low interest rates are diminishing, and the forces of higher rates can no longer be ...

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Personal Finance Weekly - The Mythical Double-Dip

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19 hours ago ago from MunKnee.com

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Bad Credit Refinance Loans: How To Get Them

15 hours ago ago from Finance Articles

For people with good credit getting mortgage refinance loans is no problem, but in times of economic uncertainty the people who need to refinance the most due to hard times often also have bad credit perhaps because of a high debt to income ratio, or a defaulted loan, or even simply because they have opened too many credit cards lately. Mortgage refinance loans are much easier to get if your credit is pristine because the bank considers ...

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