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Posts Tagged ‘lower mortgage rates’

Lowest Lake Mary Mortgage Refinance and Purchase Rates in over 2 years!? If you move quick…

Posted by Chris Brown on December 17, 2008

The Federal Reserve lowered the Fed Funds Rate to near 1.000 percent December 16 2008Well Good News for Lake Mary mortgage rates! The Federal Open Market Committee [maybe we will just call them the FED] voted to cut the Fed Funds Rate by at least three-quarters percent Tuesday.
The benchmark rate now rests in a range of 0.000-0.250%… and no, that doesn’t mean your mortgage will be at 0%. [Typically you will add 3% to that number to attain the PRIME Rate – which is what many Home Equity Lines, car loans, credit cards, and equipment loan are based upon.] In its press release, the FED ID’d 3 key sectors…

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Source Parsing the Fed Statement

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FED Cut and Lower Orlando Interest Rates

Posted by Chris Brown on October 31, 2008

The Federal Open Market Committee cut the Fed Funds Rate to 1.000 October 29. 2008

Do they go to a special school to ‘speak FED’???  Good Lord, fellas… we gotta be able to understand this stuff to be able to respond appropriately… or is that not what you want? LMAO

Well, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to cut the Fed Funds Rate by .5% today. The benchmark rate now stands at 1.0%.  THIS DOES NOT LOWER MORTGAGE RATES

In its press release, the Fed got busy addressing the main issue at-hand, stating that economic activity has “slowed markedly”.  Ha… ‘markedly’… have you ever used that word in your life?  Well, my readers are notably smarter than I am, so you probably have!  Anyway, they pointed to three main causes:

  1. Consumer spending…

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FED Cut and Lower Orlando Interest Rates

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