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Applications for U.S. home mortgages dropped last week as high interest rates continued to dampen demand and loan refinancing tumbled, an industry group said on Wednesday.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, dropped 9.5 percent in the week ended Feb.11.
#3366ff">Der Anstieg der Hypothekenzinsen drückt auf die Nachfrage. Der FED bleiben die Hände gebunden.
The MBA's seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications fell 11.4 percent last week to its lowest level since the week ended July 3, 2009.
The gauge of loan requests for home purchases was down 5.9 percent.
Fixed 30-year mortgage rates averaged 5.12 percent in the week, inching down from 5.13 percent the week before, but still high enough to keep buyers out of the market.
"Mortgage rates remained above 5 percent last week, up almost a full percentage point from their October lows, and refinance volume continued to drop," Michael Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said in a statement.
mein Depot gewandert. http://www.ariva.de/..._seit_dem_Tief_t283343?pnr=9768545#jump9768545
Grund war die Verdoppelung des S&P seit dem Tief. Der DAX zeigt nach wie vor keine Schwäche. Auch die schlechten Daten aus den USA vom Vortag sind bereits Geschichte. Somit werde ich die Position zunächst nicht erhöhen und warte auf eine Richtungsentscheidung.
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"Der Anstieg der Hypothekenzinsen drückt auf die Nachfrage. Der FED bleiben die Hände gebunden."
Da QE die Langlaufzinsen hochbringt (statt runter), wäre es für die Fed doch ein Leichtes, QE einzustellen. Dann würden auch die Langlaufzinsen wieder sinken (na ja, aus Deflationsgefahr, aber Schwund ist bei jeder Sache). Für den Housingmarkt wären niedrigere Hypothekenzinsen, die von der Zinsrendite der 30-jährigen UST abhängen, jedenfalls ein Segen.
Doch dann bleibt die große Frage, wem sonst Geithner seine 1,6 Billionen an neuen Staatsanleihen in 2011 "andrehen" kann - und zu welchen Zinskonditionen.
Die Begründungs-Lügen der Fed zur Notwendigkeit von QE2 ("Arbeitsmarkt ist immer noch schwach", "wir wollen die Langlaufzinsen senken, um die Kreditvergabe zu fördern" usw.) werden immer fadenscheiniger und durchsichtiger.
QE dient in Wahrheit fast ausschließlich der Refinanzierung von Geithners gigantischer Neuverschuldung (= Monetarisierung von Staatsschulden), weil niemand sonst die Unmengen an neuen US-Staatsanleihen zu Mickerzinsen abnehmen würde.
Interessant wird es, wenn die US-Staatsanleihen-Renditen wegen Risikoaversion infolge von "zu viel QE" weiter hochschießen. Wie lange wird die Fed dann noch behaupten können, mit QE "die Deflation bekämpfen" zu wollen?
Producer prices rose 0.8 percent in January in line with expectations on a rise in energy prices, a Labor Department report showed Wednesday.
Producer prices rose 3.6 percent over the last 12 months, slightly more than the 3.5 percent gain expected by analysts polled by Reuters.
Core producer prices rose a larger-than-expected 0.5 percent on a jump in pharmaceutical preparations and plastic products. Analysts had forecast a 0.2 percent gain.
U.S. housing starts rose more than expected in January to their highest rate in four months but permits for future home construction dropped sharply after hefty gains the prior month, according to a government report on Wednesday that showed the housing market still bouncing along the bottom.
The Commerce Department said housing starts jumped 14.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 596,000 units, the highest since September. Decembers starts were revised down to a 520,000-unit pace from the previously reported rate of 530,000 units.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast housing starts edging up to a 554,000-unit rate. Compared to January last year, residential construction was down 2.6 percent.
Groundbreaking last month was lifted by a 77.7 percent jump in volatile multi-family homes. Single-family home construction fell 1.0 percent.
The housing market recovery is being hobbled by an over-supply of homes that is depressing prices. A high unemployment rate also means the sector, which was at the heart of the worst recession since the 1930s, will struggle to recover even as the broader economy gains momentum.
An independent survey on Tuesday showed sentiment among home builders hovering near all-time lows in February.
New building permits dropped 10.4 percent to a 562,000-unit pace last month, partially reversing Decembers 15.3 percent surge that came ahead of changes in building codes in three states. Permits were pulled down last month by a 23.8 percent plunge in the multi-family segment.
Single-family unit permits fell 4.8 percent.
Analysts had expected overall building permits to fall to a 560,000-unit pace in January.
New home completions fell 9.5 percent to a record low 512,000 units in January.
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