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Mortgage Rates Very Slightly Improved Ahead Of Employment Report

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by Matthew Graham on January 31 2013, 4:07 PM

Mortgage rates were very slightly lower in most cases, making for marginal improvements in borrowing costs within the confines of recently higher interest rates. In other words, today's quoted rate is likely the same as yesterday's, depending on the scenario...
Mortgage Rates Hurt By GDP, Fed Statement Not Much Help

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by Matthew Graham on January 30 2013, 4:07 PM

Mortgage rates began the day at broadly higher levels, as bond markets moved higher in yield overnight and again after the morning's economic data. Even though this morning's GDP was weaker than expected, bond markets strengthened only briefly before...
Mortgage Rates Start Stronger, Fade By End Of Day

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by Matthew Graham on January 29 2013, 4:37 PM

Mortgage rates began the day much improved compared to Monday's latest offerings, but the gains mostly evaporated by the end of the session. The mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) that most directly affect rates, had been steadily improving since sustaining...
Mortgage Rates Continue Pushing Multi-Month Highs

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by Matthew Graham on January 28 2013, 2:26 PM

Mortgage rates moved sharply higher again on Monday, in a continuation of Friday's aggressive weakness ( Get Caught Up With Friday's Big Moves ). Rates were already well into multi-month highs at the end of last week with today merely making a bad situation...
Mortgage Rates Hit Highest Levels In Months, More Volatility Ahead

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by Matthew Graham on January 25 2013, 2:30 PM

Mortgage rates skyrocketed to their highest levels since August on Friday, both as a part of an ongoing move higher that began yesterday and more specifically in reaction to overnight events in Europe. Strong economic data in Germany sent interest rates...
Mortgage Rates Move Higher After Strong Employment Data

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by Matthew Graham on January 24 2013, 3:27 PM

Mortgage rates bounced back from a few days of moderate improvements today. Lenders typically don't release their first rate sheets of the day until a few hours of the trading session have passed. If rates sheets would have arrived before this morning...
Mortgage Rates Improve At Slightly Faster Pace

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by Matthew Graham on January 23 2013, 4:00 PM

Mortgage rates were more unified in their improvements today after beginning the week rather equivocally on Tuesday. Most lenders offered improved interest rates or reduced costs (or increased lender credit) for the same rates available yesterday. Additionally...
Mortgage Rates Vary By Lender, Stubbornly Flat Overall

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by Matthew Graham on January 22 2013, 3:22 PM

Mortgage rates were mixed, leaning toward slightly improved to begin the holiday-shortened week. Several lenders' rate sheets were slightly worse than Friday's while a majority were unchanged to slightly better. A worse-than-expected report on Existing...
Wake Up Call: Free Refi Boom Almost Over

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by Julian Hebron on January 21 2013, 3:23 PM

Earlier this month, I did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle about repeat no-cost refinancing in a declining rate environment. The piece came out January 4, the day after minutes from the Fed's last 2012 rate meeting were released. Those minutes...
Mortgage Rates Unchanged After Thursday's Rout

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by Matthew Graham on January 18 2013, 3:07 PM

Mortgage rates were completely unchanged on Friday standing in stark contrast to Thursday's sharp move higher. While there were several lenders whose rate sheets were marginally changed vs yesterday's, most were strikingly similar. A handful of lenders...
Mortgage Rates Sharply Higher, Erasing Most Of The Recent Recovery

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by Matthew Graham on January 17 2013, 4:00 PM

Mortgage rates shot higher on Thursday matching the quickest pace of the past several months seen at the beginning of January. Although rates didn't make it quite as high in absolute terms, much of the recent recovery was erased. In other words, we're...
Mortgage Rates Modestly Higher, Some Lenders More Than Others

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by Matthew Graham on January 16 2013, 2:14 PM

Mortgage rates were higher on average on Wednesday, though some lenders didn't move with the rest of the pack. On one end of the spectrum, a few lenders were unchanged vs yesterday, but the bigger deviations from the pack were at the other end where several...
Mortgage Rates Steady Or Lower For Seventh Straight Day

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by Matthew Graham on January 15 2013, 2:36 PM

Mortgage rates improved slightly on Tuesday, extending their recent streak of improvements to 7 days. Last Thursday was the only one in that series that didn't see clearcut improvements, but on average, lenders' rate offerings were roughly unchanged....
Mortgage Rates Return To 2013 Lows

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by Matthew Graham on January 14 2013, 2:56 PM

Mortgage rates improved moderately to begin the week, bringing most lenders back to levels not seen since January 2nd or before. Following the Fiscal Cliff "mini-deal," FOMC Minutes, and Employment Report two weeks ago, rates rose at to their highest...
Mortgage Rates Eke Out Minor Improvements After Late-Day Reversal

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by Matthew Graham on January 11 2013, 3:25 PM

Mortgage rates were essentially unchanged Today. On average, rates were slightly higher to begin the day, but an afternoon reversal in bond markets was sufficiently strong to prompt many lenders to release positively revised rate sheets. That tipped the...

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