Tag Archives: Unemployment Rate

Homes Get More Affordable On March Jobs Data

Americans continue to get back to work. Last Friday, in its Non-Farm Payrolls report for the month of March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced 120,000 net new jobs created, p......

Mortgage Rates Expected To Rise On A Strong Job Report

With home affordability at an all-time high, buoyed by the lowest mortgage rates ever, it’s been a terrific time to buy or refinance a home using a mortgage. The good times may not last,......

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : February 6, 2012

Mortgage markets worsened last week as domestic job growth surprised Wall Street and the Eurozone moved yet one more step closer to reaching a lasting Greece sovereign debt solution. Conformin......

Home Affordability Threatened By Friday’s Jobs Report

This week, once more, we find mortgage rates are on a downward trajectory. Conforming mortgage rates have returned to near all-time lows. After Friday morning’s Non-Farm Payrolls report......

Are You Locked ? Friday’s Job Report Will Make Mortgage Rates Move.

If you’re floating a mortgage rate, or have yet to lock one in, today may be a good day to call your loan officer. Friday morning, the government releases its Non-Farm Payrolls report at......

What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : December 5, 2011

Mortgage markets made little change last week for the fifth time in as many weeks. As Wall Street watched both the Eurozone and the U.S. regain their respective footing, expectations for a new......

Friday’s Jobs Report Represents A Big Risk To Low Mortgage Rates

Have you been floating a mortgage rate? It may be time to lock. At 8:30 AM ET Friday, the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its November Non-Farm Payrolls report......

More Risk To Home Affordability : Friday’s Jobs Report

Within the next 48 hours, mortgage rates may get bouncy. The Federal Open Market Committee will adjourn from a 2-day meeting and October’s Non-Farm Payrolls report is due for release. O......

A Mortgage Rate Strategy Ahead Of Friday’s Jobs Report

Mortgage rates are prepped to make big moves in the next 36 hours. Is it time for you to call in your rate lock? Friday, at 8:30 AM ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the Non-Far......

As Jobs Tally Fades, Mortgage Rates Fall

The U.S. economy is no longer adding new jobs. Last Friday, in its monthly Non-Farm Payrolls report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy added exactly zero new jobs ......

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