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	Venture Mortgage is a member of Strategic Alliance Mortgage LLC (SAM), an organization of about two dozen commercial mortgage firms with more than 50 offices throughout the United States. SAM members have arranged more than $75 billion of commercial mortgage loans since 2001 and currently service loans totaling $39 billion. The goal of SAM is to combine local entrepreneurial expertise with a nationwide network to deliver superior capital markets execution and alternatives to its clients. To visit the SAM website, please click on the logo to the left.
	Venture Mortgage is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 280,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., MBA invests in communities across the nation by ensuring the continued strength of the nation's residential and commercial real estate markets; expanding homeownership and extending access to affordable housing to all Americans and supporting financial literacy efforts. To visit the MBA website, please click on the logo to the left.
	Bloomberg is the world’s most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytics, data, news, and display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the Bloomberg Professional service and multimedia platforms, including Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazines. Bloomberg’s media properties span television, radio, digital and print, making up one of the world’s largest news organizations. Headquartered in New York, the company employs more than 12,500 people in 137 offices around the world. To visit the Bloomberg website, please click on the logo to the left.
	The yield curve, one of the key economic indicators used by economists and investors, is a measure of the difference between the interest rates on short-term loans (or bonds) and those on long-term loans (or bonds). Under normal economic conditions, interest rates on short-term loans are lower than on long-term loans. That is because there is generally less risk that a company will default on its debts in the next 30 days than in the next 30 years. There is also less risk that inflation will eat into the value of money repaid on a short-term loan than on a loan that is repaid decades from now. Less risk for lenders equals a lower interest rate costs for borrowers. To view the U.S. Treasury Department’s Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates, please click on the logo to the left.