Mortgage Rates Fall After Downbeat Employment Data
Mortgage rates are driven by bonds and that bonds care about employment data. There are quite a few different economic…
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Mortgage Rates Hold Perfectly Steady at 2-Week Highs
The average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate hit its highest levels in 2 weeks yesterday. The caveat was that…
Mortgage Rates Drift Up to 2-Week Highs
The bad news: mortgage rates moved up to their highest levels in 2 weeks today. The good news: the rate…
Mortgage Rates Only Modestly Higher Despite Bond Market Weakness
Weakness in the bond market generally means higher mortgage rates. Today was no exception. A key economic report on the…
Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Despite Volatility in Other Markets
Sometimes being tuned into daily mortgage rate changes means coming across other news about financial markets. In today’s case, that…
The Fed decides on interest rates Wednesday. Here’s what to expect
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the Fed cut interest rates by quarter of a…
Lowest Mortgage Rates in Just Over a Week
Mortgage rates trickled modestly lower again today for the 4th straight business day on Monday. The average top-tier 30yr fixed…
Mortgage Rates Close Out Extremely Flat Week
This week’s only real mortgage rate movement was seen at the outset on Tuesday morning (Monday was closed for the…
Another Micro-Victory For Mortgage Rates
Mortgage rates may not be as low as they were before the weekend’s geopolitical headlines, but they’ve moved just a…
Mortgage Rates Sideways to Slightly Lower
Markets held more sideways overnight as traders awaited further geopolitical developments today surrounding Greenland. Both stocks and bonds lost ground…