Activity ever since the financial crisis so i think. The optimism that were seeing from from Home Building as well as sort of the jump back into the market by someone else will bode well Going Forward for Home Ownership rates well as the fed is expected to have more rate hikes for two thousand and eighteen what kind of effect do you think that could have on current and also future mortgages. Well you know in terms of the fed rate hikes i think most economists would think there is about three to four of these in play for two thousand and eighteen which would be significant on Mortgage Rates if it wasnt for the fact that were talking about rate hikes that affect really the short end of the yield curve however Mortgage Rates are are really tied more to the to the intermediate part of the curve somewhere in the five to ten year range so i think what well see is continued flattening of the yield curve maybe a pickup of forty to fifty basis points point fourth point five percent increase tha
If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. You can also post a comment on facebook. Com cspan. The folks at the Pew Research Center have a report out with a inakdown the 3. 95 trillion federal spending. Social security makes up 24 of that spending. Medicare, 15 . Other types of health care, 50 . Income security, 13 . Veterans business benefit 5 . Education, 3 . National defense, they save 15 of the budget. Net interest, 6 . The headline to the piece says, what does the federal government spend your tax dollars on . Social Insurance Programs mostly. Paul ryan, the speaker of the house, boasted on a radio show about teh the future. Here is what he had to say. We will get to paul ryan in a seconds, but read a bit from the Weekly Standard first. He says that following the tax bill, ryan is not one to bask in the glow of past accomplishments. I asked about his priorities for 2018. He named three. Surprisingly, health care reform. I dont think the Health Care Issue is done, he said,
Everything is in the green, but very, very small movements in low volumes as well. 45 when you down look at the 30 day average. Story is in commodities. Come over here, and you can see the commodities index is up. That is a lot by metals. Is that the highest in five years, copper in four years on its 16th consecutive gaining day. Freeportmcmoran gaining about 3 today. Take a look in this chart. This is the bloomberg commodities index. It is seeing its longest stretch of gains in 12 years, and the index has been up for the past 11 days. Finally, i wanted to take a look at some movers. Lets switch up the board again. What you can see, these are some of the s ps worst performers on the year. General electric, under armour, all down on the year. We know that with ge, they are in the middle of a turnaround. The long time ceo has left in the middle of the year, along with another of budget top company executives. A new ceo reported a turnaround plan that was introduced last month, but not re
With her sunday panel. Bruce mehlman, marie harf, and bowlby c. Plus, from Natural Disaster to the opioid epidemic, we will find out the state of the nations most pressing crises. All right now be seven. And hello again and happy new years eve from fox news in washington. We begin with breaking news. The protests in major cities across iran including the capital for College Students and others anchored by the countrys worsening economy are challenging the government and the way not seen since the Islamic Republic disputed 2009 president ial election. President trump has tweeted his support of the protesters and its sparked pushback from iran. Lets go live in west palm beach, florida, for the latest from the winter white house. The protest across iran clearly a focus for President Trump. He has tweeted about of them for the last including just three days ago drawing attention to the demonstrations and showing his support for the protesters. The president tweeted many reports of peaceful
Bruce mehlman, marie harf, and bowlby c. Plus, from Natural Disaster to the opioid epidemic, we will find out the state of the nations most pressing crises. All right now be seven. And hello again and happy new years eve from fox news in washington. We begin with breaking news. The protests in major cities across iran including the capital for College Students and others anchored by the countrys worsening economy are challenging the government and the way not seen since the Islamic Republic disputed 2009 president ial election. President trump has tweeted his support of the protesters and its sparked pushback from iran. Lets go live in west palm beach, florida, for the latest from the winter white house. The protest across iran clearly a focus for President Trump. He has tweeted about of them for the last three days in a row including just three days ago drawing attention to the demonstrations and showing his support for the protesters. The president tweeted many reports of peaceful pr