Mortgage rates moved lower for an impressive 4th straight day. That hasn’t happened since late July, but there are a few caveats. First off, while…
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Yesterday, we noted that the 2nd consecutive day of improvement for mortgage rates was a rare accomplishment in the context of the past few months. …
Now here’s a rare thing! Mortgage rates managed to move lower, on average, for the 2nd consecutive business day on Monday. That hasn’t happened for…
There’s no way to sugarcoat the situation in the bond market and, by extension, the mortgage and housing markets. Rates have risen at a nearly…
Let’s talk about exactly what it means to see a mortgage rate headline in the news, or even from some seemingly official index or survey. …
There’s no sense in beating a dead horse or wading through another “same story, different day” assessment of rates. They were already at 20 year…
Mortgage rates were generally unchanged today, but not without plenty of volatility in between. Mortgage lenders would prefer to set their rates once per day…
Not only is the mortgage rate landscape vastly different than most of the past 20 years in terms of outright levels, but the way things…
Unsurprisingly, the market remains intently focused on inflation as the key driver of Fed policy and rate volatility. This week, the biggest inflation report combined…
There was no way to be sure what the effect of today’s economic data would be on mortgage rates. All we knew is that the…