Mortgage rates moved modestly higher today after holding in roughly the same territory for the past 3 days. This brings them back in line with last Thursday’s levels. In general, trade tensions helped the bond market earlier this week (stronger bonds = lower rates), but the bonds that underlie mortgages didn’t benefit nearly as much as US Treasuries.
Additionally, mortgage lenders have had to play it safer than normal amid a rising rate environment and recently higher volatility. The net effect of these factors is that mortgage rates have often not been able to participate too much during the good days, but have still had to take their lumps on the bad days….(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.
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