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Mortgage rates mostly fell in the latest week, with short-term adjustables again hitting lows, though the average on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages edged up for the third consecutive week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey.

Fixed-Rate Mortgage Edges Up as Others Fall Nathan Becker 2010

He struggled to a sitting posture with a gasp, felt frenziedly for his "adjustables" and looked round upon the mixture of dirty, frowsy figures.

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

I bought (relatively modest homes) twice in the last 10 years, nobody tried to sell me weird mortgages, but the offered adjustables and it just freaked me out.

Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers 2009

The boom-era models of the ARM have pretty much disappeared - there are no more of the two-year adjustables that hooked record numbers of consumers in 2003 and 2004 with teaser rates that needed to be refinanced with heavy fees within 24 months.

ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011

None of this is to suggest, of course, that hybrid adjustables make financial sense for everybody.

ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011

None of this is to suggest, of course, that hybrid adjustables make financial sense for everybody.

ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011

Rates on one-year adjustables averaged 3.21 percent, down from 3.23 percent last week.

Mortgage applications rise as loan costs hold steady 2011

The boom-era models of the ARM have pretty much disappeared - there are no more of the two-year adjustables that hooked record numbers of consumers in 2003 and 2004 with teaser rates that needed to be refinanced with heavy fees within 24 months.

ARM is making comeback -- and could save arm and a leg Kenneth R. Harney 2011

The market for adjustable bases is small: Leggett & Platt Inc., a Carthage, Mo., manufacturer, that says it has 62% of the adjustable-base market, estimates that adjustables make up just 2% of the overall market for mattress foundations.

Making Adjustable Beds Less Stodgy to Shoppers Anjali Athavaley 2010

Then they become one-year adjustables, but by then you may have replaced it with a lower rate.

Surviving Higher Rates 2008