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Mortgage rates hit the lowest levels of a lifetime last week. The most aggressive loan pricing was seen on Wednesday following a string of weaker than expected housing data. While mortgage rates did rise a few basis points on Thursday, consumer borrowing costs generally recovered on Friday. After lenders...
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Mortgage rates last week benefited from nervous investor sentiments regarding the fate of Greece and Goldman Sachs. A lack of conviction to own risky stocks heading into the weekend led to a flight to safety rally in benchmark Treasuries which helped mortgage-backed securities and allowed lenders to...
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After two days of abrupt selling and a spike in consumer borrowing costs, a modest recovery was made on Friday afternoon which allowed lenders to republish rate sheets for the better. If you followed our advice to float on Friday, you will be rewarded today with better rates. We did have one piece of...
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Mortgage rates ended last week near the lows of 2010 as mortgage backed securities prices rallied higher in the first half of the day. This allowed most lenders to publish improved rate sheets. Unfortunately these gains didn't make it through the day, MBS prices fell late in the afternoon which forced...
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Despite a much better than expected advance read on fourth quarter GDP (consensus was 4.5%, actual 5.7%), the week ended on Friday with mortgage rates near the best levels of the month. Usually, better than expected economic data causes stocks to move higher and bond yields increase. But that is not...
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Mortgage rates rose yesterday after a better than expected advance read on third quarter GDP sent benchmark yields higher early in the trading session. Making matters worse for the fixed income sector was a recovery rally in stocks and a 1pm Treasury auction. As explained in previous posts, added supply...