In the past 2 weeks, there’s been big news about inflation and seemingly big news about Fed policy. Both are threats to low interest rates, but not just yet, apparently.
Source: Kevin Litwicki MBSLIVE
What Are Rates and Housing Worried About?

The 70’s and 80’s brought unforgettable economic lessons about the impact of inflation. Since then, certain market participants have been watching inflation like hawks, even when they didn’t need to.
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Big Inflation Scare, But Rates Remain Resilient

Rates are driven by bonds, and as far as the bond market is concerned, much of the week was spent waiting for Friday’s big jobs report. Rates have a clearly-defined reaction function when it comes to the jobs report. Specifically, more jobs = higher rates and fewer jobs = lower rates.
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Rates Reacted to Jobs Report, But Not Like You'd Expect

This week’s 6.4% reading on Q1 GDP reinforced the notion of a strong economic recovery. In turn, the recovery helps to justify the sharp move higher in rates seen during the same 3 months. Rates managed to recover quite a bit in April, but ended up rising slightly this week. Is the intermission over?
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Moment of Truth For Rates and Housing

This week’s New Home Sales report (for the month of March) stole the show, coming in over 1 million for the first time since 2006. But although sales are up 66% year-over-year, prices have fallen in recent months and are now basically unchanged from last year. What’s up with that?
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15-Year High For New Home Sales, But Prices Are Flat. Here's Why

February and March were collectively 2 of the worst months for mortgage rates in a long time, but April is officially pushing back!
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Best 2 Weeks For Rates in Nearly a Year

2021 hasn’t been a great year for mortgage rates–at least not as far as their trajectory is concerned. But things could be changing.
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Victory For Rates; Hope For Housing Inventory?

The housing market is heating and cooling at the same time, depending on the data in question. What’s the real story?
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Who's Lying About The Housing Market?

There’s a lot of conflicting news out there about exactly what’s going on with mortgage rates. Let’s take a look at what’s really going on and how housing has been impacted.
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Rates Catch a Break. Will it Last? What's The Impact on Housing?

The most widely-followed mortgage rate report suggested a meager increase of 0.04% this week. Reality is quite a bit more harsh.
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More Mortgage Drama–Especially For Investment and 2nd Home Loans