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Mortgage Rates in a Holding Pattern

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by Matthew Graham on February 15 2019, 3:01 PM

Mortgage rates were slightly higher today, marking the 6th day in a row where they've reversed course versus the previous day. This is the sort of behavior we see when underlying financial markets are having a hard time making up their mind (or are simply...
Rates Are Better Today, But Not Back to 1-Year Lows

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by Matthew Graham on February 14 2019, 4:43 PM

Mortgage rates recovered today after rising to the highest levels in a week as of yesterday. The improvement followed a much-weaker-than-expected Retail Sales report--something investors have been waiting on for nearly 2 months due to the government shutdown...
Highest Mortgage Rates in a Week After Today's Move

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by Matthew Graham on February 13 2019, 4:41 PM

Mortgage rates hadn't changed much over the past few business days, even though they arguably should have moved a bit higher yesterday. That made today's adjustment slightly more abrupt. Why was there an adjustment? Mortgage rates are based primarily...
How The Shutdown Is Affecting Mortgage Rates

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by Matthew Graham on February 12 2019, 4:32 PM

Mortgage rates were roughly unchanged yet again today, although the average lender was charging microscopically higher fees compared to yesterday. The key ingredient in today's market movement (which ultimately translates to mortgage rate movement) was...
Low Rates Unfazed by a Bit of Market Weakness

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by Matthew Graham on February 11 2019, 3:55 PM

Mortgage rates held their ground fairly well today, despite the fact that underlying bond markets were weaker. Bond market weakness is associated with higher interest rates, all other things being equal. To understand this, consider that a bond is essentially...
Mortgage Rates End Week at Lows

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by Matthew Graham on February 08 2019, 5:36 PM

Mortgage rates may not be quite as low as they were on January 31st, but they nonetheless managed to end at the lowest levels of this week . Unlike January 31st, we can still say we're at the lowest levels in more than a year (yesterday was the first...
Big Day For Mortgage Rates

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by Matthew Graham on February 07 2019, 5:37 PM

Thursday plays host to vastly more mortgage rate articles than any other day of the week. This has to do with the regular weekly release of Freddie Mac's mortgage rate survey (which many news organizations use as source material for one article per week...
Mortgage Rates Fall Back Toward Long-Term Lows

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by Matthew Graham on February 06 2019, 2:47 PM

Mortgage rates moved lower for the second straight day after rising moderately on Friday and Monday. This brings the average lender to the second lowest levels in almost exactly 1 year. The only day with lower rates was January 31st, 2019 (last Thursday...
Mortgage Rates Making a Case For Remaining in Recent Range

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by Matthew Graham on February 05 2019, 5:03 PM

Mortgage rates stabilized today, after moving higher somewhat quickly following several strong economic reports on Friday. If you'd like to revisit the relationship between economic data and rates, we discussed it in greater detail in yesterday's coverage...
Mortgage Rates Quickly Retreating After Hitting Long-Term Lows

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by Matthew Graham on February 04 2019, 4:08 PM

Mortgage rates continued moving higher today as Fridays unfortunate series of events seems to have motivated a big bounce. What events are those? Namely, we're talking about several important economic reports including the big jobs report and the most...
Mortgage Rates Give Back Yesterday's Improvement

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by Matthew Graham on February 01 2019, 7:01 PM

Mortgage rates fell significantly yesterday, extending a reaction to the Federal Reserve's announcement and press conference from Wednesday. The Fed was essentially much more concerned with risks to the economic outlook than investors expected them to...
Mortgage Rates Quietly Thunder to 1-Year Lows

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by Matthew Graham on January 31 2019, 4:31 PM

Mortgage rates fell more triumphantly today, extending their reaction to yesterday's Federal Reserve announcement. The Fed isn't in direct control of interest rates, although the opposite often seems to be true. The free market largely decides rates due...
Mortgage Rates Fall to 3-Week Lows After Fed

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by Matthew Graham on January 30 2019, 4:15 PM

Mortgage rates fell moderately today, largely in response to the Federal Reserve's policy announcement. The Fed is in charge of setting a key short-term rate that impacts the entire financial market by varying degrees. The Fed does NOT set fixed mortgage...
Mortgage Rates Hit 2 Week Lows Ahead of The Fed

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by Matthew Graham on January 29 2019, 4:01 PM

Mortgage rates didn't move yesterday, despite a moderate amount of improvement in underlying bond markets. When bonds improve, rates tend to move lower, but there can be a lag for a few reasons. As we often discuss, bonds need to move by a certain amount...
Mortgage Rates Unchanged at Start of Hectic Week

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by Matthew Graham on January 28 2019, 4:23 PM

Mortgage rates didn't move at all today, on average, but that's likely to change throughout the course of the week--possibly several times. Interest rates are driven by bond market trading which, in turn, takes its cues from all manner of inputs. Two...

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