Matthew Royer's (sphinx780) Blog

Good morning, Europe, Europe, Europe.  Last week we touched on fears about Italy and now it seems that the rest of the world is following suit with a strong Market Reaction to Italy’s current financial position. The newer fear is that France is strongly leveraged in Italian Bonds, so we may be he...

Good morning, Again, we’re seeing fear in Europe over Greece’s finances and now Italy’s.  Somehow I don’t think organizing a nationwide vacation over to either place is going to change their financial situation enough to really help.  Although those are the two places I would love to spend the ma...

Good morning, Rates are holding steady this morning with a strong look by investors to the ongoing financial issues in Europe.  There are attempts at trying to structure some financial stability and news should hit this afternoon on some of the progress that this multinational negotiation has mad...

Good morning, Rates are continuing their slow creep up and unless we see some major news negatively about Europe or some other ‘scary’ negative financial news, I’d expect this trend to slowly continue. In the meantime, the World Series is on tonight and after being up the past couple nights with ...

Good morning, Rates are creeping up from last week and I think this is a good time to go over an important point for those of you who watch the news or read articles online about interest rates. You will most likely see an article or news report in the next week talking about mortgage rates conti...

Good morning, As expected, rates are holding steady.  The technical signals that would generally help us achieve lower interest rates are where we would expect them to be but as we’ve seen time and time again in the past couple years, the emotional hurdle of global news stories somehow finds a wa...

Good morning, After the market update last week I was expecting to see that rates had risen.  I would be mistaken.  There was a great market change for the better last week but it came after the morning update and lasted for all of two days before things returned to the price points we saw last w...

Good Morning and thank goodness we'll be back in the 70s this weekend.  I don't mind the cooler weather but I also don't mind keeping some warm weather for a few months longer either. So, rates are hanging out at unbelievable lows but we could see some volatility today when the Federal Bank relea...

Good Morning, Rates continue to stay at these unprecedented lows. Is everyone enjoying the start of school?  It seems like the working parents I talk to over the course of the year are torn on this.  On one hand you have the parents that are looking forward to that additional time for sanity's sa...

Good Morning! Rates continue to stay at unprecedented lows, with the 30 year fixed dropping below 4% once again and a big talking point in the news is the job outlook. Is it improving?  Some say yes, some say no and both sides have their statistics and numbers to argue their side. Here's my quest...