Tag Archive: "interest rates"
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The real estate frenzy is over
With surging home prices and mortgage rates, we are approaching housing affordability levels not seen since the housing bubble that led to the Great Financial Crisis. The chart below from Bill McBride’s Calculated Risk newsletter shows this effect accelerating throughout the past few years. But signs of relief are signing to show. According to Mike […]
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Taking a fresh look at investing reserves for institutions
According to the 2022 Global Institutional Investor survey (Natixis), the two biggest concerns for institutional investors in 2022 are inflation and interest rates. It isn’t hard to see why. The global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic sent interest rates plummeting to record lows during the summer of 2020 (MarketWatch), which is why the last […]