Relevant:
- Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Sends Mixed Message; Rates Become Erratic
- Fed President Puts Timeline on Rates Policy. Raises Doubts on Mortgage Purchase Program
- Mortgage Rates Vulnerable to Feds' Decisions
- Current Mortgage Rates Spiking, Panic Sets in, 30-yr fixed FHA Rates Rise too
- Proposed housing changes especially harmful to NoMi
2012-12-03 — reuters.com
``Since September, when the Fed targeted the U.S. mortgage market with its latest round of large-scale bond purchases, the closely watched spread between the interest rates homeowners pay and what investors reap on mortgage-backed securities has widened to record levels.
The Fed's purchase of $40 billion per month in agency MBS has made a big splash in the secondary market. Yet in the primary market, the drop in the mortgage rates that home buyers can get from lenders has not been as pronounced as the central bank wanted, lagging historical trend.''
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