Jan 2, 2013 2:48PM
Mortgage rates moved to their highest levels since December 19th this morning after Congress passed a last-minute bill softening the blow of the Fiscal Cliff. The legislation has been and may continue to be characterized as some sort of "deal" that averts the impending Cliff. While that's true in the short term, the most obvious "yeah but" is the fact that spending cuts were merely delayed. Markets reacted as-expected to the presence of a "deal" (in the sense that "something" was better than "nothing...
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