Hawaii mortgage rates hit 6% (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
All major mortgage lenders in Hawaii hiked their 30-year fixed-rate home loan rates to 6 percent this week, the Honolulu Board of Realtors reported Friday.
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Mortgage Industry Gets a Boost (Zacks.com via Yahoo! Finance) On Tuesday, mortgage investment stocks are proving to be trailblazers with the industry gaining 5.16%.read more...
Danielle DiMartino: A 'Smart' take on low rates (Reg Req'd) Morgan Stanley's senior investment strategist, Byron Wien, has been around since Christ was corporeal, in the words of a friend who sent me one of the Wall Street legend's recent
Madonna's Grand Pants THE businessman banned from selling Madonna's pants on eBay has sold them for 1000 in a private deal to one of the bidders.via
Mortgage equity withdrawal falls (Financial Times) Mortgage equity withdrawal - mortgage lending that is not spent on houses - fell 17 per cent in the third quarter as a period of stable house prices discouraged homeowners
Car-Buying Spurt Helps Retail Sales "The retail sales number is just one more reason for the Fed to lower rates." Consumers kept spending in August and factories kept producing, but the gains were weaker
Home is where Wall St.'s head is Investors were on standby ahead of Wednesday's stock market open, awaiting the July existing home sales report due after the bell rings.read more...