AP – Mortgage rates held below the 5 percent threshold for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, weeks before a government program that has been keeping rates low is scheduled to expire.
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Reuters – U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings dropped for a second straight month in February, and notched the smallest annual increase in four years as housing-rescue efforts contained activity, a report released on Thursday showed.
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The Motley Fool – The first Friday of every month brings the all-important employment report. February’s numbers were better than anticipated. The United States lost only 36,000 jobs, versus the 68,000 that experts expected. This compares with 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009. Still, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7%, with the unofficial rate stuck around a whopping 16%.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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U.S. News & World Report – The real estate market continued to heal in the final three months of 2009, as lower home prices, cheap mortgage rates, and a federal tax credit worked to juice demand. The development was visible in the S&P/Case-Shiller home price report released Tuesday, which found that the rate of annual home price declines improved again in the fourth quarter. Prices at the national level fell just 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with a year earlier. …
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AP – Report: Fewer people falling behind on home loans
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AP – The Mortgage Bankers Association’s quarterly report on foreclosures Friday showed fewer homeowners are starting to fall behind on their loans, compared with the third quarter. But the number of borrowers who have missed at least three payments kept growing.
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AP – Rates for 30-year home loans edged lower for the second straight week, a report said Thursday, but remained above last year’s record lows.
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