There’s certainly a chicken/egg problem when it comes to interest rate news. Is it the Fed’s decisions that move rates? Or do market forces move…
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Mortgage rates are ideally determined only once per day, several hours into the business day. This gives mortgage lenders time to observe a baseline for…
Does Credit Suisse qualify as a “big bank” anymore? The company could be argued to be circling the drain for many months, but nonetheless holds…
Mortgage rates made substantial gains yesterday as financial markets underwent a classic flight to safety. This involves selling riskier assets like stocks and buying fixed-income…
If you’re just getting caught up or otherwise haven’t heard, the biggest news in financial markets since last Friday has been the precipitous failure of…
While the Federal Reserve doesn’t directly dictate mortgage rates, the outlook for Fed rate hikes matters a great deal. In the days and weeks leading…
There’s probably not going to be any way around it. However volatile rates may have been in the past 2 weeks, they’re at risk of…
Jerome Powell is the Chair of the Federal Reserve–the entity that sets overnight lending rates in an attempt to keep inflation in a low, stable…
Mortgage rates have been hovering around the highest levels in months over the past 2 weeks, but had made a bit of progress by the…
It’s not a decisive victory, but rather, a nice way to end a week that had previously seen rates pushed over 7% for the first…