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		<title>Mortgage Rates &#124; Do they really need to increase?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank Economists seem to talk up mortgage rates but I'm not so sure!  When you look at the fundamentals I struggle to see why rates need to increase much at all


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		<title>NZ Mortgage Rates will stay Low for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally everyone is starting to "get it."  Mortgage rates are going nowhere fast, so there is great value in sticking with floating and short term fixed rates


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		<title>Market view of Rates is softening</title>
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		<comments>http://www.squirrel.co.nz/market-rate-view-softening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term wholesale interest rates have been dropping, which reinforces what we’ve been saying for a while &#8211; that the market overcooked its forecast on interest rates. Rates will increase, but not as quickly as the market initially priced in.  The 5 year funding rate has dropped half a percent to 5.30% since it peaked in 


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		<title>NZ Mortgage Rate Forecast 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 12 months mortgage rates have been at historic lows. There has been talk for some time that rates will eventually increase and 2010 has been slated as the year that will happen. Some Economists have talked about as early as April whilst others are still talking September. Timing aside, rates will go 


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		<title>Too early to call a Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m slightly bemused by how quickly some commentators are proclaiming the end of this – the mother of all recessions. If that’s it – finished – then the recession was quite dull by past standards and I will happily eat my shorts. The world is becoming a much faster place so I&#8217;m thinking that recessions 


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