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GAIL DUDACK The decline in starts shows that higher interest rates are impacting the housing market. That is a s...
JAMES CARON Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT The decline in oil helped, as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising interest ...
PETER BOOCKVAR This is going to cement the case to hike interest rates. The numbers do nothing to alter the stance ...
COLEN GARROW The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising ...
PETER BOOCKVAR The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the da...
BILL EVANS All forecasts are for interest rates and mortgage rates to go up a little bit again this year. It co...
KATHY DECK We had a huge increase this year and it's unlikely that it can be sustained at that level. With inte...
DAN CASTRO Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more t...
AKIFUMI UCHIDA Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates...
VINCENT BOBERSKI A year from now, when the rates are a percentage or two higher, the math will be a little more diffi...
BILL MCCUBBIN The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS There's no sign that investor demand has softened at all. The things that would have caused a slower...
DAVID BERSON Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market general...
EDMUND SHING Earnings growth is strong, interest rates are low, and the environment is positive for stocks. The m...
BOB STRAUS When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
DAVID LEREAH The market has a very consistent forecast for a decline in interest rates and everyone is betting st...
FLAVIO DATZ The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS Taking into consideration the fact that mortgage rates have fallen from the earlier peak at the end ...
FRANK NOTHAFT We're still in sluggish trade. Confidence is not good in Hong Kong; investors are still worried abou...
LINUS YIP Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The (Federal Reserve) should certainly emulate the decline in market (interest rates) and should cut...
FRED BERGSTEN Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE There is a psychological level at which investors are going to start looking at the fixed-interest m...
ARTHUR LIM Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH![]()
It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market,
BILL GROSS Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN The statement fueled market expectations that the Fed will further increase interest rates.
HIROKI SHIMAZU I think if anything, interest rates will stay still or decline and that could potentially offset the...
GARY PERLSTEIN The silver lining on this is that it confirms that the Federal Reserve will not be raising interest ...
DONALD SELKIN The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to ...
MICHAEL EVERY The small increase in mortgage rates in November may have prompted many prospective homebuyers to ju...
GREGORY KLUMP Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT One of the main drivers right now for the market is this worry about interest rates.
BRIAN STINE The interest rates are at its lowest point now because of the economic turmoil. People in the market...
ZENG HAN JUN The expectation is that, over time, interest checking and money market rates will continue to increa...
RANDY ROSEN Lack of uncertainty around the Iraq conflict caused bond market yields to reverse their downward spi...
FRANK NOTHAFT We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in t...
DAVID JORDAN While some of the decline was related to the effects of Hurricane Floyd, the fact that all four regi...
STEVEN WOOD The market will probably be less active today as players are waiting for the Fed speakers for some d...
MASAYUKI SENDA The market generally believes that zero interest rates will continue for the next two or three month...
KAZUYUKI KATO But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN![]()
The market is not focused on imbalances, but rather interest rates and in the US right now they are ...
DAVID GILMORE The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be...
JOHN HULL Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financia...
ZENG HAN JUN I think the Fed still has no other choice but still to raise rates. I know that there's some rumors ...
MARC GABELLI The deals have been the de-icing on the cake. The more dominant issue is the Nasdaq bounce, which we...
GEORGE HODGSON Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower bu...
AMY CREWS CUTTS People who calculated what they could afford when rates were 5.25 percent have realized their mortga...
ANTHONY HSIEH We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interes...
FELIX LANTERS The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Shrugging off statements by the Fed last week, mortgage rates remained relatively more stable than b...
AMY CUTTS Coming off such a low base, higher rates are confirmation we're in an economic growth cycle, as oppo...
JOE KALINOWSKI The fundamentals remain solid. Virginia is among the 10 fastest-growing states in the country, and m...
KIT HALE![]()
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int...
JENNIFER LEE I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS One of the reasons we had the housing market surging ahead was because of the low cost of borrowing ...
ALAN GIN Although down somewhat, the purchase market continues to benefit from strong job formation and long-...
BOB WALTERS These transportation projects, especially the metro lines, will further spur the real estate market,...
ZHANG JUN It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes pric...
CELIA CHEN So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT Interest rates matter and there are concerns about the economy. These things make the market more he...
FELIX LANTERS We had to guess each year what interest rates would do in the coming year, which is difficult to do ...
CHRIS HILLMAN The market needs to walk a line between too little growth and too much growth, between profits and i...
JAMES AWAD That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people exp...
FRANCISCO ANDRADE![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON There's a little bit more caution coming into the investment outlook mostly because of fears of high...
CHRIS IGGO Long-term mortgage rates will more than likely rise over the next few months, albeit modestly compar...
FRANK NOTHAFT The market has gone crazy, especially in the property sector. Investors are trying to believe that i...
FRANCIS LUN If interest rates aren't going any higher for a little while, then that will probably help make the ...
JUSTIN PASCOE I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t...
GRACE FEY Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH I think part of what has driven the market today are fluctuations in oil and interest rates and the ...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN I would venture to forecast that if the upcoming payroll report were to post a decline in the vicini...
TONY CRESCENZI To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the ot...
JAMES AWAD What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA The market is definitely a lot more sluggish than at the end of last year. However how much of that ...
HOWARD MORLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We are still seeing buying of interest-rate-sensitive stocks. Investors believe the U.S. economy is ...
FREDERICK TSANG There's already been a considerable softening in housing demand which preceded the recent rise in mo...
RICHARD DEKASER At the moment there is not a broad-based systemic inflation problem bubbling up in the economy. The ...
JOSEPH MCALINDEN The trend of higher growth, lower interest rates and the performance of past investments are factors...
JOSE OLYMPIO PEREIRA Some investors are staying at the sidelines as uncertainties linger over whether the Fed would surpr...
HERBERT LAU
GAIL DUDACK The decline in starts shows that higher interest rates are impacting the housing market. That is a s...
JAMES CARON Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates ...
FAROOQ KATHWARI As we expected, mortgage rates moved upward a little in response to the current volatility in the fi...
FRANK NOTHAFT The decline in oil helped, as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising interest ...
PETER BOOCKVAR This is going to cement the case to hike interest rates. The numbers do nothing to alter the stance ...
COLEN GARROW The decline in oil helped (stocks), as well as the hope that maybe the Fed will be finished raising ...
PETER BOOCKVAR The short-term interest-rate level at 4.25 on fed funds provides mortgage rates which definitely won...
KIT JUCKES People are complacent about interest rates now. There is a risk that the emerging strength of the da...
BILL EVANS All forecasts are for interest rates and mortgage rates to go up a little bit again this year. It co...
KATHY DECK We had a huge increase this year and it's unlikely that it can be sustained at that level. With inte...
DAN CASTRO Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more t...
AKIFUMI UCHIDA Freddie Mac's own economic forecast calls for a mild and gradual increase in 30-year fixed-rate mort...
FRANK NOTHAFT Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates...
VINCENT BOBERSKI A year from now, when the rates are a percentage or two higher, the math will be a little more diffi...
BILL MCCUBBIN The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CUTTS The 30-year [fixed-rate mortgage] came in under 6 percent for the last 22 weeks of this year. As a m...
AMY CREWS CUTTS There's no sign that investor demand has softened at all. The things that would have caused a slower...
DAVID BERSON Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market general...
EDMUND SHING Earnings growth is strong, interest rates are low, and the environment is positive for stocks. The m...
BOB STRAUS When mortgage interest rates first began to rise from record lows, it appears some buyers jumped int...
DAVID LEREAH The market has a very consistent forecast for a decline in interest rates and everyone is betting st...
FLAVIO DATZ The drop in mortgage interest rates is offsetting higher home prices, so housing affordability condi...
MARTIN EDWARDS Taking into consideration the fact that mortgage rates have fallen from the earlier peak at the end ...
FRANK NOTHAFT We're still in sluggish trade. Confidence is not good in Hong Kong; investors are still worried abou...
LINUS YIP Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The (Federal Reserve) should certainly emulate the decline in market (interest rates) and should cut...
FRED BERGSTEN Long-term U.S. interest rates have risen as the market has started to price in the likelihood that t...
MASAMICHI KOIKE There is a psychological level at which investors are going to start looking at the fixed-interest m...
ARTHUR LIM Overall we're in a very good situation; I don't think interest rates will be going up. Greenspan is ...
GREGORY SMITH
It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market, BILL GROSS Fresh worries about rising inflation in the US and the extent to which the US Federal Reserve will r...
FRANCIS LUN The statement fueled market expectations that the Fed will further increase interest rates.
HIROKI SHIMAZU I think if anything, interest rates will stay still or decline and that could potentially offset the...
GARY PERLSTEIN The silver lining on this is that it confirms that the Federal Reserve will not be raising interest ...
DONALD SELKIN The market has slowed down just a bit, just because we're coming to the end of the year, and also mo...
ANTHONY ROMERO With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to ...
MICHAEL EVERY The small increase in mortgage rates in November may have prompted many prospective homebuyers to ju...
GREGORY KLUMP Low mortgage rates continue to fuel the housing market, making homeownership more attainable to a br...
FRANK NOTHAFT One of the main drivers right now for the market is this worry about interest rates.
BRIAN STINE The interest rates are at its lowest point now because of the economic turmoil. People in the market...
ZENG HAN JUN The expectation is that, over time, interest checking and money market rates will continue to increa...
RANDY ROSEN Lack of uncertainty around the Iraq conflict caused bond market yields to reverse their downward spi...
FRANK NOTHAFT We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in t...
DAVID JORDAN While some of the decline was related to the effects of Hurricane Floyd, the fact that all four regi...
STEVEN WOOD The market will probably be less active today as players are waiting for the Fed speakers for some d...
MASAYUKI SENDA The market generally believes that zero interest rates will continue for the next two or three month...
KAZUYUKI KATO But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN But looser underwriting standards and the more widespread penetration of riskier mortgage products h...
JOHN DUGAN
The market is not focused on imbalances, but rather interest rates and in the US right now they are ... DAVID GILMORE The continued price increases are a result of many factors including low mortgage interest rates and...
PATRICK LAWLER When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be...
JOHN HULL Property prices may drop, but I do not think it will drop that fast. The consumers are more financia...
ZENG HAN JUN I think the Fed still has no other choice but still to raise rates. I know that there's some rumors ...
MARC GABELLI The deals have been the de-icing on the cake. The more dominant issue is the Nasdaq bounce, which we...
GEORGE HODGSON Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust...
HOWARD ATKINS Lower figures for the recently released producer-price index and consumer- price index, and lower bu...
AMY CREWS CUTTS People who calculated what they could afford when rates were 5.25 percent have realized their mortga...
ANTHONY HSIEH We expect no change in interest rates. The market has been factoring in better interest rates for th...
JOE ROONEY There are some big concerns about the U.S. economy and the stock market will struggle a bit. Interes...
FELIX LANTERS The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Shrugging off statements by the Fed last week, mortgage rates remained relatively more stable than b...
AMY CUTTS Coming off such a low base, higher rates are confirmation we're in an economic growth cycle, as oppo...
JOE KALINOWSKI The fundamentals remain solid. Virginia is among the 10 fastest-growing states in the country, and m...
KIT HALE
Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher [int... JENNIFER LEE I think that what we have to understand now is that interest rates had been rising for a year and a ...
LOUIS HOLLAND Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a...
AMY CREWS CUTTS One of the reasons we had the housing market surging ahead was because of the low cost of borrowing ...
ALAN GIN Although down somewhat, the purchase market continues to benefit from strong job formation and long-...
BOB WALTERS These transportation projects, especially the metro lines, will further spur the real estate market,...
ZHANG JUN It's pretty clear that housing is slowing. Rising mortgage rates and the very fast rising homes pric...
CELIA CHEN So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are o...
FRANK NOTHAFT Interest rates matter and there are concerns about the economy. These things make the market more he...
FELIX LANTERS We had to guess each year what interest rates would do in the coming year, which is difficult to do ...
CHRIS HILLMAN The market needs to walk a line between too little growth and too much growth, between profits and i...
JAMES AWAD That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people exp...
FRANCISCO ANDRADE
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There's a little bit more caution coming into the investment outlook mostly because of fears of high...
CHRIS IGGO Long-term mortgage rates will more than likely rise over the next few months, albeit modestly compar...
FRANK NOTHAFT The market has gone crazy, especially in the property sector. Investors are trying to believe that i...
FRANCIS LUN If interest rates aren't going any higher for a little while, then that will probably help make the ...
JUSTIN PASCOE I think that the market - once we get through this interest rate fear and we're more certain about t...
GRACE FEY Supply and demand continue to drive this market out here, more so than interest rates. Interest rate...
DAVE NASH I think part of what has driven the market today are fluctuations in oil and interest rates and the ...
CHARLES LIEBERMAN I would venture to forecast that if the upcoming payroll report were to post a decline in the vicini...
TONY CRESCENZI To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Interest rates are creeping up and some might say that this is more realistic that it's more normal....
ALEXIS MUELLNER Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CUTTS Last Friday's unexpectedly weak employment report caused interest rates on long-term Treasury bonds ...
AMY CREWS CUTTS I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the ot...
JAMES AWAD What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA The market is definitely a lot more sluggish than at the end of last year. However how much of that ...
HOWARD MORLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We are still seeing buying of interest-rate-sensitive stocks. Investors believe the U.S. economy is ...
FREDERICK TSANG There's already been a considerable softening in housing demand which preceded the recent rise in mo...
RICHARD DEKASER At the moment there is not a broad-based systemic inflation problem bubbling up in the economy. The ...
JOSEPH MCALINDEN The trend of higher growth, lower interest rates and the performance of past investments are factors...
JOSE OLYMPIO PEREIRA Some investors are staying at the sidelines as uncertainties linger over whether the Fed would surpr...
HERBERT LAU
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