September 12, 2016

September 12, 2016

US Credit Card Debt to Top $1 Trillion in 2016 – Americans added $34.4 billion to their credit card debt in the second quarter of 2016, nearly half the total added in all of 2015. Debt holders also paid down just $27.5 billion, the smallest amount since 2008.

Mortgage rates finally break higher: What you should watch – Mortgage rates took their biggest leap in two months on Friday, thanks to a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury. It was only an eighth of a percentage point move, but enough to send stocks of the nation’s homebuilders, as well as anything else that touches housing, tumbling.

America’s foreclosure generation – Those born in the 1970s have fallen from having a 4% higher than normal homeownership rate in 2004 to a 7% lower than normal homeownership rate today.

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MEDIATOR OF THE MONTH: Jeffrey Grayson
September 12, 2016