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CrowdStreet Review: Is this Real Estate Platform For You?
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Acorns App Review | Micro-Investing Made Easy
When investing app Acorns was conceived in 2012, it was lauded as a smart way to invest your spare change. âAnyone can grow wealth,â Acorns asserts on its website. And due to the way the mobile app operates, it really does practice what it preaches. With the Acorns mobile app, anyone can build wealth by […]
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Moving Checklist to Prepare for Moving to a New House
There are few better feelings in the world than finally signing your name across the dotted line and entering a new chapter of homeownership. Finally, the home you’ve been dreaming is yours to claim and all of the tedious paperwork is squared away. All that’s left to do now is make the big move. Whether
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Legit Buying Demand or Position Squaring?
Legit Buying Demand or Position Squaring? “Position squaring” is fancy market jargon that refers to closing previously open positions, but it can also refer to taking opposing positions to square up one’s risk exposure. A “position” is just a bet on rates moving higher or lower. Traders have been in short positions on rates this week (i.e. betting on rates going higher). Is the squaring of these positions for the 3-day weekend the only way to explain today’s moderate mid-day improvement or were there legitimate sources of inspiration? Econ Data / Events Import Prices -0.2 vs -0.2 f’cast, -0.1 prev Leading Economic Indicators -0.3 vs -0.3 f’cast, -0.8 prev Market Movement Recap 09:00 AM Slightly weaker out of the gate in Asia with additional weakness in Europe, but some resilience heading into domestic hours. 10yr up 2.5bps at 3.886. MBS down a quarter point. 10:29 AM Bonds bouncing back with 10yr yields unchanged at 3.857. MBS still slightly weaker, but well off their AM lows. 02:01 PM MBS edging into positive territory in the PM hours with 5.0 coupons up 1 tick (0.03). 10yr yields down 3.5bps at 3.828. 04:03 PM Best levels of the day in after hours trading. 10yr down 4.8bps at 3.815 and MBS up 5 ticks (.16).
How to Invest $500: 13 Ways to Grow Your Money
Many multi-millionaires started investing small sums, even $10 or $25 per month! The key to making your money grow is putting it in an investment that suits your risk tolerance and goals and adding more regularly. If you have $500 to spare, here are 13 ways you invest it for the short-term or long haul.
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More Yield Curve Musings and Retail Sales Reaction
More Yield Curve Musings and Retail Sales Reaction Retail Sales was today’s big ticket data point and it came in quite a bit stronger than expected. Bonds reacted about like you’d expect with yields rising immediately after the data. MBS didn’t get hit quite as hard. Part of the reason was the shape of yield curve trading today. There was also plenty of corporate issuance and a 20yr bond auction that weighed Treasuries down a bit compared to MBS. Today’s video discusses (and attempts to simplify, a bit…) the yield curve and some curve trading considerations. Econ Data / Events Retail Sales 3.0 vs -1.9 f’cast,-1.1 prev NY Fed Manufacturing -5.8 vs -18.0 f’cast, -32.9 prev Industrial Production 0.0 vs 0.5 f’cast, -1.0 prev NAHB Builder Confidence 42 vs 37 f’cast, 35 prev Market Movement Recap 09:49 AM Flat overnight, then logically weaker after data. Some surprising resilience since then. MBS unchanged and 10yr up less than 1bp at 3.761. 12:11 PM Progressively weaker Treasuries with 10yr yields up 6bps at 3.81+. MBS near lows, down 5 ticks (.16) on the day and 6 ticks (.19) versus the AM highs. 02:38 PM Sideways volatility for Treasuries after the 20yr bond auction, but still near previous levels, with 10yr yields up 6bps at 3.814. MBS down 5 ticks (.16).
The Best Tiny-House Loans of 2023 – Picks by Bob Vila – Bob Vila
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Marketing, PPE, Broker to Banker, Customer Experience Tools; CFPB on Credit Payments; Disaster News; Redfin in the Red
Nature is full of trivia. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. The climate, obviously, is part of nature. Climate, and natural disasters, impact our clients, people, insurance premiums, and the value of servicing in areas prone to hurricanes, flooding, forest fires, and earthquakes. A certain portion of those events (the number is increasing) are determined by FEMA to be natural disasters, and last year 3.4 million adults in the U.S. were at one point or another forced to evacuate their homes due to one, according to the Census Bureau. Approximately 1.4 percent of the American adult population. Thatâs a lot higher than historical averages, up to 800,000 on average for the years between 2008 and 2021. 12 percent were people displaced for over six months and 16 percent were adults who never returned home. The Mortgage Bankers Associationâs (MBA) Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA) has published A Collection of Essays on Climate Risk and the Housing Market. It âwas developed in response to the growing interest from industry participants on how various issues were connected to climate risk. The study features four essays from industry experts that focus on topline issues related to climate risk and its impact on the housing market.â (Todayâs podcast can be found here and this weekâs is sponsored by the STRATMOR Group, the data-driven mortgage advisory. At STRATMOR, insights and knowledge are applied to guide mortgage clients to make sound strategic decisions and take actions that improve their success. Todays has an interview with Partner Garth Graham on tech trends and adoption of tech solutions.)