Home buyers get break as mortgage rates decrease - 2004-02-13
Mortgage rates — after rising for two straight weeks — dropped this week, offering a break for people wanting to acquire a home.

The average rate on 30-year mortgages fell to 5.66 percent, down up from 5.72 percent last week, Freddie Mac, the mortgage giant, said yesterday in its weekly nationwide survey of mortgage rates.

Rates on these benchmark mortgages hit a four-decade low of 5.21 percent in the middle of June.
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TYSON FOODS INTRODUCES $50 MILLION HOMEOWNERSHIP INITIATIVE FOR TEAM MEMBERS WITH FREDDIE MAC - 2004-02-13
Tyson Foods, Inc., today will unveil a new and important program to help eligible Tyson Team Members become homeowners.

Tyson is launching the $50 million Workforce Home Benefit program with the Tyson Credit Union, a division of 66 Federal Credit Union; Balance Financial Fitness Program; National Credit Union Foundation; and Freddie Mac, one of the nation's largest investors in residential mortgages. The Tyson program is the largest of its kind in the United States.
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