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Mortgage rates are down. Mortgage rates are even lower! Mortgage rates are at new 2010 lows!! Mortgage rates are HIGHER!!! That's the most economical way to describe the directional movements of mortgage rates this week. Although the road was rocky (lots of reprice watching), mortgage rates generally...
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Let's recap the week before discussing what happened today. MONDAY : Mortgage Rates Rise as Flight to Safety Reverses Course Mortgage rates rose after the European Union announced over the weekend an official plan to address growing debt problems in their member countries, specifically Greece, Portugal...
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While benchmark Treasury yields moved slowly higher throughout the course of the week as our government auctioned debt to raise spending money, mortgage-backed securities managed to maintain a pretty consistent price range. After all was said and done and the auctions were behind us, mortgage rates were...
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I described last week as a roller coaster ride for mortgage rates. A busy schedule of economic data provided much of the motivation for movement in the rates marketplace with the release of the Employment Situation Report on Friday capping off the volatile action. The jobs report indicated fewer jobs...
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Who Dat!!!! Congratulations to New Orleans on a well played and exciting Super Bowl victory. Mortgage rate moved a few basis points lower on Friday following the Employment Situation Report . While we have seen scattered day over day streaks of improvements, mortgages rates have failed to fall lower...
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Mortgage rates moved higher today as MBS prices fell following two better than expected economic reports. The move lower in MBS prices forced lenders to reduce rate sheet rebate, pushing consumer borrowing costs higher for the third consecutive day. The streak of rising rates was started by a weak 3...
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It looks like this week could be a quiet one, at least as far as new developments from economic data are concerned. Few of this week’s releases have the potential to put a damper on the recent upswing in financial markets, and the biggest release, Retail Sales , is expected to show confirm with...
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The week ends with the release of U.S. PPI , advance retail sales and the preliminary print of the University of Michigan/Reuters consumer confidence index. August's annualized core PPI is expected rise 3.7% following July's increase of 3.5%. Headline PPI is also expected to rise 10.2% following...
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The U.S. economy will continue to struggle between slowing growth and rising inflation. According to economists and strategists, markets will focus on U.S. advance retail sales, July CPI and the University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment. U.S. markets will also receive U.S. trade balance, IBD...