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Mortgage Refinancing Jumps as Rates SlipMORTGAGES, HOUSING, REAL ESTATE, CONSUMERS, CREDIT, ECONOMYBy ReutersReuters| 10 Sep 2008 | 07:02 AM ET
The lowest 30-year mortgage rates since late May boosted demand for mortgage applications last week, particularly by homeowners looking to refinance existing loans, according to data published by an industry group on Wednesday.
Average 30-year loan rates sank 0.33 percentage point to 6.06 percent in the week ending Sept. 5, spurring a more than 15 percent jump in refinance applications, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
The slide in rates came prior to Sunday's government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest U.S. home funding companies, aimed at staunching global markets turmoil and stabilizing the worst housing market since the Great Depression.
Home loan rates sank as much as a half percentage point the day after the bailout of the two struggling companies.
The MBA's seasonally adjusted index of total mortgage application activity rose 9.5 percent last week to 496.2, the highest level since mid-July.
The seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications gained by 15.4 percent to 1,222.9 and the measure of home purchase loan requests rose 6.4 percent to 371.5.
The past week's results include an adjustment for the Labor Day holiday, which shut U.S. financial markets.
If the current 30-year fixed rate of about 6 percent holds, almost one third of the mortgage universe has a 1/2 percentage point or more incentive to refinance, according to JPMorgan.
"We would look for the refinancing index to more than double, moving into the 2,000 to 2,500 area," the firm's analysts said on Monday. An additional half-point cut in the mortgage rate "will make 60 percent of the universe refinanceable by 50 basis points or more," JPMorgan said. "The last time this happened was in late January 2008 when the refinancing index printed above 5,000."
Falling mortgage rates and discounted prices could help burn off some of the enormous overhang of unsold homes, enticing purchasers back to the market.
Until the excess of supply is cleared, U.S. housing will wrestle with finding a floor, analysts contend.
Aha, euch geht's also auch an den Kragen:
By William L. Watts, MarketWatch Last update: 8:26 a.m. EDT Sept. 10, 2008 LONDON (MarketWatch) - Germany, Spain and Great Britain are headed for recession, the European Commission warned Wednesday in an update to its annual economic forecasts.
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The recent fall in oil and other commodity prices and the euro's fall have provided some relief, he said.
But the overall global economic outlook remains "unusually uncertain," the commission's report warned. Business and consumer confidence has fallen across Europe and measures of activity have also started to weaken. Indicators, including industrial production, orders and retail sales, signal deceleration in underlying growth momentum in the European Union and the euro area in recent months.
Recession warning
Meanwhile, Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the anchor of the euro zone, is expected to follow a 0.5% drop in second-quarter GDP with a 0.2% contraction in the third quarter -- meeting the informal recession criteria of two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Germany is still forecast to grow by 1.8% in 2008, unchanged from the April forecast after a strong 1.3% rise in GDP in the first quarter. Spain, which has been hard hit by a housing-market collapse, is forecast to follow anemic 0.1% growth in the second quarter with a 0.1% contraction in the third quarter and a0.3% drop in the fourth. Full-year growth is pegged at 1.4%, down from the April estimate of 2.2%.
Outside the euro zone, Great Britain is forecast to follow the second quarter's flat GDP performance with drops of 0.2% in the third and fourth quarters.
Inflation 'turning point'
On a positive note, the commission said inflation may be near a "turning point" after surging energy and food prices contributed to sharp rises in headline consumer inflation. Higher-than-expected inflation forced the commission to raise its euro-zone inflation forecast for 2008 to 3.6%, up from its April estimate of 3.1%. The forecast for Great Britain was also raised to 3.6% from the previous forecast of 2.8%. For the EU as a whole, the commission now forecasts 2008 inflation at 3.8% compared to a previous estimate of 3.6%. The Bank of England, which had cut interest rates by 75 basis points to 5% between December and April, has remained on hold over the past five months, opting to stay on the sidelines as it wrestles with surging inflation pressures and fears of a potentially sharp economic downturn. The Bank of England's annual inflation target is 2%. The European Central Bank hiked its key rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25% in July in an effort to anchor rising inflation expectations. The ECB's inflation target is below but near 2%. "The gradual fading of the impact of past increases in energy and food prices in the coming months suggest, however, that inflation could be at a turning point," the commission said, but warned that future developments in commodity markets and the ability to prevent "second-round effects" will be crucial to the inflation outlook in the euro zone and across the European Union. ECB and Bank of England officials have warned that high inflation expectations could lead to more aggressive price and wage rises. 
ha-ha-ha, also das hier ist schon Nobelpreis-verdächtig: the best of "better than expected"Gesülze von Lehman. Hier ein Auszug:
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) - Lehman Brothers haben am Mittwoch trotz schwacher Zahlen deutlich gewonnen. Gegen 15.55 Uhr stiegen die Papiere der Investmentbank um 6,55 Prozent auf 8,30 US-Dollar. Der Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) (Profil) legte zur selben Zeit um 0,81 Prozent auf 11.321,60 Zähler. „Die Zahlen sind nicht so verheerend ausgefallen wie zum Teil befürchtet“, sagte Marktexperte Robert Halver von der Baader Bank. „Der Markt will nicht wissen, ob die Quartalszahlen schlecht oder sehr schlecht waren, der Markt will wissen, wer Lehmann kriegt“. Wichtig sei, dass nach Bear Stearns und der Rettungsaktion von Fannie Mae und Freddie Mac die „dritte Großbaustelle geschlossen wird“, sagte Halver. "Das meiste liegt im Rahmen der Erwartungen", äußerte ein Händler. "Sehr überraschend ist die deutliche Reduktion der Dividende von 68 auf 5 Cents." Auch müssten die angedeuteten Deals erst gemacht worden sein, bevor sie sich im Aktienkurs auswirkten. Zudem sei die Bank immer noch mit 13,7 Milliarden Dollar im Hypothekenbereich engagiert, der in den USA noch lange nicht aus dem Gröbsten heraus sei. Von Bernard McAlinden, Marktstratege bei NCB Stockbrokers, hieß es indes, "frisches Kapital wäre deutlich besser gewesen als der Verkauf von Vermögenswerten". Die von der Finanzkrise schwer getroffene US-Investmentbank Lehman Brothers stürzt immer tiefer in die roten Zahlen. Die Bank erlitt nach weiteren Milliardenabschreibungen in ihrem dritten Geschäftsquartal ein Minus von voraussichtlich 3,9 Milliarden US-Dollar (2,8 Mrd Euro) - deutlich mehr, als Experten erwartet hatten. Die Dividende wird nun radikal zusammengestrichen. Um der wachsenden Probleme Herr zu werden, hat die viertgrößte US-Investmentbank nach eigenen Angaben bereits rund 1.500 Stellen abgebaut. Sie will nun zudem Konzernteile verkaufen, um sich dringend benötigtes frisches Kapital zu beschaffen. So verhandelt Lehman über den Verkauf eines Mehrheitsanteils an seiner Vermögensverwaltung./gl/he
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