Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch
Mortgage Rates paused their recent trend of moderate improvement today to hold steady near all-time lows. Despite an abundance of domestic economic data out this morning, r ates continue to be indirectly fueled by political and economic turmoil in the Euro-zone. After failing to form a new government, Greece today announced it would hold new elections. Investors fear that those left in power will lead Greece to back-out of the austerity pledges required by the EU and IMF for recent bailout monies as well as Greece’s membership in the EU. If Greece stops receiving that money, they’re all but guaranteed to officially default (their recent debt-restructuring was already a default by some standards), and also all but guaranteed to be booted out of the European Union. If those things happen, investors…(read more)
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