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...Would-be homebuyers who have been dreaming of Federal Reserve rate cuts might need to dial down their hopes....
...The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates, probably beginning in June. The average rate for a 30-year, fixed home mortgage was around 6.63 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
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...Net mortgage approvals rose to 60,400 in February — the highest since September 2022....
...Or the same Ben Bernanke who, as chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system, said in mid-May 2007 that he did not believe the growing number of mortgage defaults would seriously harm the...
...US mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level since July, in a sign that the economy is cooling as Federal Reserve officials prepare for their latest interest rate decision on Wednesday....
...US mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level since August, as the world’s largest economy continued to show signs of cooling with markets forecasting the end of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate...
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...Federal Reserve officials have indicated they still expect to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point this year, sending US equity markets to record highs....
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...BNP was not the only eurozone lender to offer Swiss franc mortgages....
...The cost of homes soared in many countries during the pandemic, but high mortgage rates have led to a significant slowdown in house price growth in a number of countries....
...He projected room in the near term for one more cut to the one-year LPR and the banking sector reserve ratio requirement, which policymakers have reduced by 1 per cent since the beginning of 2023....
...The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell 0.25 percentage points to 7.61 per cent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, for a second consecutive weekly decrease....
...Most Fed officials support reducing the central bank’s mortgage-backed securities holdings to zero, to avoid distorting the mortgage market....
...Federal Reserve officials unleashed their optimism on Wednesday, unveiling projections for faster than expected US economic growth this year while still leaving room to cut interest rates three times....
...That was up 5 per cent from the same period a year earlier, and approaching the record $1.25mn median sales price reached in the second quarter of 2022 — just as the Federal Reserve was beginning to raise...
...Cardoso said last week that central bank reserves had an inflow of $600mn in just two days....
...Shortly before Jay Powell, Federal Reserve chair, announced that the central bank was keeping benchmark rates at 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent, Colin Simpson, Manulife’s chief financial officer, revealed...
...Federal Reserve officials were wary of cutting interest rates too quickly this year, according to a record of their last meeting in January, as they remained “highly attentive” to the risk of resurgent inflation...
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