by Athena Paquette | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
While the news is not bad, the rates fell. This week we got the December consumer price index, and it was down .1%, with the core rate up .1%. December housing starts were down .25%, and building permits were down 3.9%. All are not good signs, as construction is a...
by Athena Paquette | Jan 9, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Did you see the stock market this week? Well if you did, and you have read my newsletter before, you know that most of the time when stocks don’t do well, bonds do, so rates go down. And you would also know that the first Friday of the month all eyes are on the jobs...
by Athena Paquette | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Though there wasn’t much “good news” this week, which means we should have seen rates decline, we actually saw rates increase a little on the comments made by the Fed after their FOMC meeting. They had less “dour” language hinting that they may raise rates in...
by Athena Paquette | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Mostly a quiet week in the bond market as all eyes were on China and Europe. China lowered their interest rates this week to try and stimulate their economy (the 2nd largest in the world), and the European Central bank (like our Fed) gave indications that they would...
by Athena Paquette | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
This week showed us that prices are not going up, and therefore the threat of inflation is not there. The PPI was down .5% and down 1.1% since a year ago. The CPI was down .2% from August and flat from a year ago. This means that the price consumers are paying is the...
