It is the week before Christmas and hopefully you aren’t thinking of mortgages, but instead planning for some good down-time with your family and friends. But, if you are in the process of buying or refinancing, Mortgage markets did improve last week, but not by much; not enough to move conventional mortgage rates in California in any significant way.

Wall Street watched as Eurozone leaders expressed little willingness to increase aid programs within the region, and as the Federal Reserve voted against new economic stimulus for the United States. The Fed Funds Rate remains near 0.000 percent and QE3 was not introduced. Continue reading →