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Mortgage Rates Holding Near 3-Month Highs

Mortgage rates launched to their highest levels in more than 3 months yesterday for a variety of reasons.  Chief among them was a series of comments from both China and the US about the intent to cancel previously announced tariffs as a part of the phase 1 trade deal.  Tariffs and trade have been weighing on the economic outlook in a big way, and that’s benefited interest rates.  Anything that lessens the weight has the opposite effect.
Notably, the bond market failed to improve very much today even after Trump said that there was no agreement to roll back tariffs yet, even though there was a clear reaction. 

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