Fri, Apr 3 2015, 12:07 PM
Mortgage rates scored a major victory today at the expense of the labor market. Recent examples of the Employment Situation Report (the big "jobs ...
Thu, Apr 2 2015, 5:12 PM
Mortgage rates bounce higher today on average. Some lenders remained close to unchanged, but they generally were the same lenders that hadn't impr...
Wed, Apr 1 2015, 4:58 PM
Mortgage rates fell appreciably today , this time at the fastest pace of the current winning streak. In fact, it was the biggest move lower since t...
Tue, Mar 31 2015, 4:46 PM
Mortgage rates fell again today
extending a 3 day winning streak after shooting abruptly higher in the
middle of last week. That damage hasn't...
Mon, Mar 30 2015, 3:59 PM
Mortgage rates fell moderately
to begin the week, but haven't yet returned to recent lows. Even so,
the improvement is a relief considering ra...
Fri, Mar 27 2015, 4:21 PM
Mortgage rates had one of their least exciting days of the week today, moving just modestly lower from yesterday's latest levels. The trading ra...
Thu, Mar 26 2015, 3:51 PM
Mortgage rates rose rapidly today, almost completely erasing the improvement following last week's Fed Announcement. This is especially ironic consid...
Wed, Mar 25 2015, 3:23 PM
Mortgage rates finally moved noticeably higher today, something they haven't done on 11 out of the last 12 days. Yesterday, I pointed out that su...
Tue, Mar 24 2015, 3:14 PM
Mortgage rates fell again today , extending an exceptionally strong 2+ week move back to lower levels after an exceptionally weak 5 week move to 201...
Mon, Mar 23 2015, 4:33 PM
Mortgage rates continued lower today, reaching levels not seen since February 9th. This further solidifies the positive move that followed last we...
Fri, Mar 20 2015, 4:58 PM
Mortgage rates moved modestly lower on average today after doing an admirable job of holding their ground amid weaker market conditions yesterday. ...
Thu, Mar 19 2015, 4:24 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher over the course of the day today as financial markets underwent a correction following yesterday's big move lower in ra...
Wed, Mar 18 2015, 5:28 PM
Mortgage rates plummeted today , relatively speaking. While the average improvement of 0.10% might not look like much at face value, it's the bigge...
Tue, Mar 17 2015, 4:59 PM
Mortgage rates continue gently lower again today, extending a recent winning streak that's seen improvements on 6 out of the past 7 days. While an...
Mon, Mar 16 2015, 3:46 PM
Mortgage rates fell modestly to begin the week following several weaker-than-expected economic reports. Economic data affects rates by motivating ...
Fri, Mar 13 2015, 3:39 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher today, but remained much closer to the best levels of the week seen yesterday. In general, this week has ser...
Thu, Mar 12 2015, 3:56 PM
Mortgage rates were mixed today depending on the lender, but moved just slightly lower on average. This wasn't the case this morning as essentia...
Wed, Mar 11 2015, 4:30 PM
Mortgage rates continued lower at a steady pace for most lenders today. The week continues to be slow in terms of domestic events and data, but ...
Tue, Mar 10 2015, 4:04 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower for second day today, with the combined improvements erasing roughly half of the losses seen on Friday. The brings ...
Mon, Mar 9 2015, 4:32 PM
Mortgage rates managed to recover only some of Friday's heavy losses. The most prevalent conventional 30yr rate for top tier scenarios remains a...
Fri, Mar 6 2015, 4:38 PM
Mortgage rates were more or less obliterated today. Of course, everything's relative, so the obliteration is only relative to the average day of...
Thu, Mar 5 2015, 3:38 PM
Mortgage rates held almost perfectly flat for the 2nd day in a row, despite market volatility caused by overseas events. The European Central Bank...
Wed, Mar 4 2015, 4:49 PM
Mortgage rates paused today after moving swiftly higher over the past two days. Markets reacted to two important pieces of data this morning, ADP ...
Tue, Mar 3 2015, 3:18 PM
Mortgage rates moved convincingly higher for the second straight day, bringing them back near the highest levels of 2015. Rates are dictated pri...
Mon, Mar 2 2015, 4:34 PM
Mortgage rates rose fairly sharply to begin the new month as a large corporate bond sale indirectly hurt the bonds that dictate mortgage rates. ...
Fri, Feb 27 2015, 5:09 PM
Mortgage rates managed to scrape together modest gains for today's month-end session. In terms of the financial markets that dictate mortgage ...
Thu, Feb 26 2015, 6:04 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher today, undoing the modest gains seen yesterday, but leaving the more significant drop from Tuesday intact. ...
Wed, Feb 25 2015, 4:04 PM
Mortgage rates had a bad Valentines Day. It's not that anything happened on that Saturday. Indeed, lenders weren't even open. It's just that t...
Tue, Feb 24 2015, 4:40 PM
Mortgage rates had their best day of the month today following Fed Chair Yellen's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. That's part...
Mon, Feb 23 2015, 4:32 PM
Mortgage rates ended the day in almost perfectly unchanged territory versus Friday's despite trading levels improving in the secondary mortgage...
Fri, Feb 20 2015, 4:51 PM
Mortgage rates are ending the day in very similar territory to yesterday's latest levels but have had something of a wild ride between now and ...
Thu, Feb 19 2015, 5:10 PM
Mortgage rates didn't move much today on average, but some lenders were noticeably better or worse compared to yesterday. It's not that they wer...
Wed, Feb 18 2015, 5:09 PM
Mortgage rates caught a bit of break today, logging the first meaningful improvements in the entire month of February. The gains weren't much ...
Tue, Feb 17 2015, 4:02 PM
Mortgage rates got hit hard today , rising at the fastest day-over-day pace since November 8th 2013. As of today, this also makes February th...
Fri, Feb 13 2015, 3:35 PM
Mortgage rates may have been feeling the love yesterday, but that now seems to have been a coincidental blip in the longer-term trend. Rates act...
Thu, Feb 12 2015, 5:02 PM
Mortgage rates were feeling left out of the cheesy, obligatory, early February references to certain love-themed holidays. Markets hadn't show...
Wed, Feb 11 2015, 5:33 PM
Mortgage rates are in the midst of a substantial losing streak . Today's outright losses weren't that bad in and of themselves, but they have...
Tue, Feb 10 2015, 4:28 PM
Mortgage rates remain under significant pressure , having now moved higher almost every day in February. So far, this is the worst month for rate...
Mon, Feb 9 2015, 5:16 PM
Mortgage rates , fresh off a rather ugly Friday last week, continued to struggle today. The morning hours were mostly OK. Some lenders were in...
Fri, Feb 6 2015, 4:56 PM
Mortgage rates shot higher at their fastest pace in nearly a year today following this morning's employment data. This also leaves rates at thei...
Thu, Feb 5 2015, 4:57 PM
Mortgage rates held their ground today even as trading levels in bond markets suggested a move higher. This has to do with the heads-up I offere...
Wed, Feb 4 2015, 4:58 PM
Mortgage rates were steady to slightly higher today, depending where you looked and at what time of day. The morning hours brought additional pa...
Tue, Feb 3 2015, 4:33 PM
Mortgage rates picked up the pace of weakness today, moving higher at their quickest pace of the year. That's the bad news. The good news is th...
Mon, Feb 2 2015, 4:26 PM
Mortgage rates were just slightly higher today, but generally did a good job of holding on to recent gains. For perspective, last Friday was the...
Fri, Jan 30 2015, 3:51 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today at their fastest pace since January 14th. Rates sheets moved well past recent lows and back to levels not seen ...
Thu, Jan 29 2015, 3:53 PM
Mortgage rates were steady to slightly higher today on average. Some lenders were actually slightly lower, but they were the exception. In cont...
Wed, Jan 28 2015, 5:03 PM
Mortgage rates fell again today , and while the move wasn't big, it was enough to bring most lenders back in line with the best rates from two wee...
Tue, Jan 27 2015, 4:46 PM
Mortgage rates continued a recent pattern of small day-to-day changes today. This time, however, lenders were more unified in a move to slightly...
Mon, Jan 26 2015, 2:56 PM
Mortgage rates were unchanged in most cases today, though some lenders were microscopically higher or lower compared to last Friday. Any attempt...
Fri, Jan 23 2015, 5:15 PM
Mortgage rates were modestly lower today, and are now getting back in line with levels not seen in more than 20 months. Only the last 3 days of ...
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