Mortgage rates have fallen quite a bit since hitting a long term peak in late October. By the middle of this week, the average 30yr fixed rate was more than 1.25% lower from the highs and at the best levels in more than 4 months. Rates have fallen due to improvement in the bond market, but bonds aren’t the only thing that impacts mortgage rates.
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Rates May be Falling, But Other Mortgage Costs Are Going Up

Mortgage rates officially hit their lowest levels in 4 months after this week’s inflation data. Despite the recent progress, Fed officials continue to talk about keeping rates high “for as long as possible.” Who’s telling the truth?
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Lowest Rates in 4 Months, So Why Does Fed Say They're Going Higher?

The Fed has a parrot problem, and it’s on a crash course with economic reality… maybe.
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Markets Call The Fed's Bluff After Downbeat Data

So long 2022! Don’t let the door hit you. You were the worst year for mortgage rates that most of us have seen in our lifetimes in terms of the pace of the rate spike. Sure, our friends who have more “life experience” are happy to remind us about their double digit mortgage rates in the 80s, but that was then, and everything’s relative. Besides, the “2nd worst rate environment, ever” doesn’t really make anyone feel any better.
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2022 Was Rough For Rates and Housing, But 2023 is a Blank Canvas

The last two weeks of December are unlike almost any time of year in terms of market movement and what we should read into it, but there were several housing-related reports that are worth considering as we head into the new year.
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Mixed Signals in Housing Data and Small-Scale Volatility in Rates

It was a critical week for financial markets and especially for rates as investors digested the latest inflation data and the Fed’s smaller rate hike.
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Best Winning Streak For Rates in 2 Years

Tuesday December 13th is the day many people have been waiting for ever since Thursday November 10th. What do those two days have in common? They each mark the monthly release of the Consumer Price Index, the official inflation data responsible for some of 2022’s wildest trading days.
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Extremely Risky Week Coming Up For Better or Worse

As far as financial markets are concerned, a green Christmas is better than anything Bing Crosby could have crooned about. Green is the color that flashes when markets are improving or when interest rates are falling. Green, for lack of a better word, is good.
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Rates Dream of Green Christmas With Help From The Fed

There’s no question that last week was an exciting one for rates. On Wednesday, the average 30yr fixed was fairly close to the highest levels since 2002. The following afternoon, it had fallen more than half a percent to the lowest level in nearly 2 months–the biggest single day drop on record.
Source: Kevin Litwicki MBSLIVE
Fed Says: Don't Get Too Excited About Rates Just Yet

Heading into this week, we knew that Thursday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) would be critically important. It did not disappoint.
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Record Single Day Drop in Rates After Inflation Comes in Cooler