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		<title>Interest rates fall on concern about Greek debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest rates fell in the bond market Thursday after concerns grew that a bailout for Greece might not be enough to help the country through its fiscal crisis.
Renewed questions about the Greek government&#8217;s ability to make its debt payments have pushed its borrowing costs higher. Investors outside Greece don&#8217;t want problems there to spill to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US on right track, but low rates still needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco Federal Reserve President Janet Yellen said her own thinking has turned the corner, and she&#8217;s now confident &#8220;the economy is on the right track,&#8221; according to remarks prepared for delivery before a meeting of Financial Executives International.
&#8220;I expect the pace of recovery to gain momentum over the course of this year and next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage interest rates ease</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After rising for a month, the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed loan declined to 5.07% this past week from 5.21% the previous week, Freddie Mac said in its weekly survey of lenders. 
Fixed-rate 15-year mortgages, a popular option for people refinancing to pay off their homes more quickly, averaged 4.40%, down from 4.52%. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest rates fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest rates fell in the bond market Monday ahead of a parade of corporate earnings reports.
The profit levels and forecasts from companies will give investors important clues about the strength of the economy. The uncertainty about the outlook made some investors cautious and increased demand for safe investments.
Treasury prices rose and yields dropped as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refinance to Lower Interest Rates Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama mortgage debt relief plan was designed to help homeowners stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure.  If you have had difficulty making your monthly mortgage payment then you should consider going through a mortgage refinance to lower your interest rate.  Another option is going through home loan modification.
If you have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record-low interest rates still necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday said record-low interest rates are still needed to support the U.S. economy, but the central bank has to be ready to tighten credit to prevent inflation.
At a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke outlined steps the Fed may take to unwind the massive stimulus that was pumped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Democrats Beat Back Vote On Student Loan Interest Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats staved off an attempt by Republican lawmakers Wednesday night to reduce the maximum interest rate the federal government can charge on loans to student borrowers, keeping intact its overhaul of the college lending market.
The Democratic plan would see private lenders banned from originating student loans and replace them with the federal government making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rates rise after weak auction results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DISAPPOINTING TURNOUT: Interest rates jumped in the bond market Wednesday after a government debt auction drew weaker demand. An auction Tuesday also saw lower demand.
NOT THAT INTERESTED: The auction of $42 billion in five-year notes saw demand fall from the past two months. That means the government could have to start offering higher interest rates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest Rates To Rise Gradually &#8211; RBA&#8217;s Lowe (Australia)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic outlook for Australia appears considerably brighter than that for the other advanced economies and it is likely that interest rates will need to continue their gradual move towards &#8220;more normal levels&#8221;, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Philip Lowe said on Thursday.
&#8220;With the economy having relatively limited spare capacity, it is likely that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disastrous GDP Growth Puts Fed in a Bind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street cheered news that the economy has slowed to a 2.5% clip during the second quarter of 2006. The headline number sounds great for those pulling for the Federal Reserve to pause in August, but just about everything else in the report was a disaster. Traders focused on news of a slowing economy to [...]]]></description>
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