Tue, Feb 23 2016, 4:22 PM
Mortgage rates experienced some volatility today, but ended up in slightly stronger territory on average. At first, rates were higher, as underlyin...
Mon, Feb 22 2016, 5:27 PM
Mortgage rates maintained recent sideways momentum today, holding inside a narrow range established last week. This range is particularly interesti...
Fri, Feb 19 2016, 4:17 PM
Mortgage rates improved slightly today, on average, despite modest weakness in underlying bond markets. We discussed this possibility yesterday in ...
Thu, Feb 18 2016, 8:09 PM
Mortgage rates finally held their ground today, earning back some of the ground lost over the past 3 days. While a substantial gap remains between ...
Wed, Feb 17 2016, 4:44 PM
Mortgage rates were just a bit higher in most cases today, although some lenders were effectively unchanged from yesterday. If you happened to stop...
Tue, Feb 16 2016, 3:59 PM
Mortgage rates continued slightly higher today, further distancing themselves from last week's 1-yr lows. The average lender continues to quote c...
Fri, Feb 12 2016, 3:47 PM
Mortgage rates rose rapidly today, relative to their average intraday movement potential. Things have been far from average, of course, and so it ...
Thu, Feb 11 2016, 5:22 PM
Mortgage rates were widely available at 3.5 percent for much of the day today. At any other time from the middle of 2013 through the end of 2015, ...
Wed, Feb 10 2016, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates barely budged today, but did manage to gain just a bit of ground. That means another 1-year low, technically, although many lenders...
Tue, Feb 9 2016, 4:13 PM
Mortgage rates kept moving lower today as global financial markets remain in distress. This time around, the improvement wasn't as much about the b...
Mon, Feb 8 2016, 5:08 PM
Mortgage rates dropped significantly today, officially hitting the lowest levels in almost exactly 1 year. For most lenders, that means a conventio...
Fri, Feb 5 2016, 4:49 PM
Mortgage rates were mostly unchanged today, though a few lenders were microscopically higher in cost . That's an uncommon result for the day of th...
Thu, Feb 4 2016, 4:35 PM
Mortgage rates held their ground at 8-month lows today. This time around, it was far less eventful than yesterday's session, which saw lenders chan...
Wed, Feb 3 2016, 4:54 PM
Mortgage rates had a far more tumultuous day despite ultimately hanging on to the lowest levels in more than 8 months. Whether you wanted to be h...
Tue, Feb 2 2016, 4:35 PM
Mortgage rates only paused for a brief moment of reflection yesterday before continuing with 2016's trend of improvement. Today's gains bring them ...
Mon, Feb 1 2016, 4:33 PM
Mortgage rates were in line with the best levels in 8 months as of last Friday. Although they moved slightly higher to begin the new week, today ...
Fri, Jan 29 2016, 4:39 PM
Mortgage rates were at 3 month lows yesterday and today have moved in line with 8-month lows. For most lenders, there was a day or 2 in October tha...
Thu, Jan 28 2016, 4:42 PM
Mortgage rates moved down modestly today, but it was enough to bring them to the lowest levels seen in exactly 3 months. There were only a few days...
Wed, Jan 27 2016, 5:30 PM
Mortgage rates pulled off a come-from-behind victory following today's Fed Announcement. This time around, the Fed wasn't at all likely to make a...
Tue, Jan 26 2016, 5:21 PM
Mortgage rates did something they haven't done all year today. They actually improved in the face of a stock rally. In fact, it was the third be...
Mon, Jan 25 2016, 4:33 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today, recovering some of Friday's losses. Those losses introduced the risk that 2016's dominant trend towa...
Fri, Jan 22 2016, 6:02 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher at their quickest pace of 2016 today. Rates have been faithfully following the slide in equities prices, albeit at a ge...
Thu, Jan 21 2016, 4:38 PM
Mortgage rates held mostly flat today, and that's an accomplishment! Lenders set mortgage rates based primarily on the prices of mortgage-backed-se...
Wed, Jan 20 2016, 5:01 PM
Mortgage rates fell today , bringing them back in line with the lowest levels in more than 2 months and very near the best levels since late April 20...
Tue, Jan 19 2016, 3:54 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today, but remained near the lowest levels in more than 2 months. Friday's drop was uncharacteristically sharp and put ...
Fri, Jan 15 2016, 2:56 PM
Mortgage rates surged lower at the quickest pace of the year today as stocks and oil prices continued suffering heavy losses. At present, investors...
Thu, Jan 14 2016, 4:54 PM
For the first time this year, mortgage rates spent the second straight day without moving any lower. While that may sound like a bad thing, it ...
Wed, Jan 13 2016, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates held their ground today, keeping them near the lowest levels in more than 2 months. There were no major economic reports, but financ...
Tue, Jan 12 2016, 4:47 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately, but somewhat precipitously lower today. How can the improvement be both moderate and precipitous? A fair questi...
Mon, Jan 11 2016, 5:23 PM
Mortgage rates finally pulled back (higher)--albeit slightly--after spending most of the past 2 weeks moving significantly lower. Much of the recen...
Fri, Jan 8 2016, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today, despite an exceptionally strong jobs report--something that typically sends rates screaming higher. Recently, how...
Thu, Jan 7 2016, 5:06 PM
Mortgage rates inched slightly lower today, adding to an already impressive string of improvements in the new year. Rates typically take most of th...
Wed, Jan 6 2016, 5:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved respectably lower today, nearly making it to the best levels in a month. Whereas the average conventional 30yr fixed quote h...
Tue, Jan 5 2016, 5:12 PM
Mortgage rates were essentially unchanged for many lenders today and just barely higher for others. There were no major sources of inspiration as...
Mon, Jan 4 2016, 4:59 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today as financial markets roared back to life after the winter break. In this age of ever-increasing automation and d...
Thu, Dec 31 2015, 2:33 PM
Mortgage rates had an interesting year to say the least. After almost universal consensus on a move toward higher rates the first few months of t...
Wed, Dec 30 2015, 4:53 PM
Mortgage rates managed to hold steady
today after moving up to the highest levels in more than 5 months
yesterday. Rates had moved close to c...
Tue, Dec 29 2015, 4:27 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly highe r today. While it wasn't a big move in the grand scheme of things, rates were already fairly close to their hi...
Mon, Dec 28 2015, 6:49 PM
Mortgage rates were sideways to slightly lower today as underlying bond markets continue to operate in holiday mode. While that can occasionally ...
Thu, Dec 24 2015, 12:43 PM
Almost any article you see today on mortgage rates will say the same thing: "rates are roughly unchanged from last week." Almost every article w...
Wed, Dec 23 2015, 5:37 PM
Mortgage rates moved up for the second consecutive day, but in an uncommon way. Mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) are the financial instruments th...
Tue, Dec 22 2015, 5:39 PM
Mortgage rates bounced slightly higher today, ending a 4-day winning streak that began with last Wednesday's Fed rate hike. Generally speaking, t...
Mon, Dec 21 2015, 6:44 PM
Mortgage rates continued a trend of small, steady improvements into the new week today. This marks the 4th straight day of a winning streak that ...
Fri, Dec 18 2015, 4:44 PM
Mortgage rates maintained their paradoxical descent following this week's Fed rate hike. The paradox can be accounted-for in several ways, but th...
Thu, Dec 17 2015, 4:59 PM
Mortgage rates continued modestly lower today as financial markets continue sorting out their reaction to yesterday's Fed rate hike. As a reminde...
Wed, Dec 16 2015, 6:40 PM
Mortgage rates moved just slightly lower today, despite the long-awaited Fed rate hike. Once again, that's LOWER mortgage rates and a HIGHER Fed ...
Tue, Dec 15 2015, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates jumped again today, moving to the highest levels more than a month ahead of tomorrow's hotly anticipated Fed Announcement. Many le...
Mon, Dec 14 2015, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates moved quickly higher today, more than erasing Friday's strong performance. If fact, most lenders are at their highest levels in mo...
Fri, Dec 11 2015, 6:18 PM
Mortgage rates recovered yesterday's losses in many cases, and moved even lower in many other cases. The mortgage sector was one of the tamer per...
Thu, Dec 10 2015, 5:21 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately higher today, bringing them to the worst levels in exactly one week. That said, the movement over that time has b...
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