As bond yields and mortgage rates have dropped, mortgage applications both to refinance and to buy homes have risen.

随着债券利率和按揭利率双双下跌，购买房屋和再融资的抵押贷款申请数量出现增长。

youdao

Worse, it faces a barrage of loan-repurchase lawsuits from bond insurers and private mortgage investors.

更糟糕的是它还面对来自包销商和抵押贷款私人投资者对贷款回购的大量诉讼。

youdao

While Treasuries look rich, other parts of the bond market beckon, including municipals, corporate bonds, convertible securities, some mortgage securities and preferred stock.

虽然国债看上去不错，债券市场的其他品种更有吸引力，它们包括市政债券，公司债券，可转换证券，一些抵押贷款证券和优先股。

youdao

By buying Treasury and government-agency debt, central banks have financed America's current-account deficit, and pushed down bond yields and mortgage rates, allowing America's consumer spending and borrowing binge to continue for longer.

ECONOMIST: Asian currencies

And to keep its exchange rate pegged to the dollar, China has been buying vast amounts of American Treasury bonds, which has helped to depress bond yields and mortgage rates, fuelling America's property boom.

ECONOMIST: The dragon and the eagle | The

It is long-term bond yields, and the mortgage rates allied to them, that give the economy its tempo.

ECONOMIST: More of the same from the chairman of the Fed