Fri, May 30 2014, 3:51 PM
Mortgage rates continued slightly higher
today. This had more to do with a market-based continuation of
yesterday's momentum than it did wit...
Thu, May 29 2014, 3:49 PM
Mortgage rates began the day in even better shape than yesterday, but market volatility prompted most lenders to raise rates in the afternoon .
...
Wed, May 28 2014, 3:28 PM
After tying the record for most consecutive days with no change, mortgage rates moved significantly lower today .
The significance isn't due t...
Tue, May 27 2014, 3:03 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher
this morning, but mid-day market improvements led many lenders to
adjust rates lower into the afternoon. T...
Fri, May 23 2014, 1:24 PM
Mortgage rates didn't budge
today--not one little bit. It's one thing for lenders to be adjusting
rate sheets at various points in the day, be...
Thu, May 22 2014, 2:58 PM
Mortgage rates ,
once again, are ending the day essentially unchanged compared to the
previous day. Morning rate sheets were in stronger territ...
Wed, May 21 2014, 3:16 PM
Mortgage rates
held almost perfectly steady today, despite the potentially important
release of last month's meeting minutes from the FOMC (aka...
Tue, May 20 2014, 3:37 PM
Mortgage rates
improved modestly today, making it back in line with Friday's levels.
These aren't the very best rates of 2014, but they're clo...
Mon, May 19 2014, 3:10 PM
Mortgage rates
began the day in roughly the same territory as Friday afternoon. Some
lenders were in slightly better shape while others were s...
Fri, May 16 2014, 3:20 PM
Mortgage rates
were slightly higher today, continuing a move from yesterday that saw
most of the early gains evaporate by the end of the day. ...
Thu, May 15 2014, 4:13 PM
Mortgage rates
kept moving lower today as European markets continued to provide an
unexpectedly large boost in demand for domestic bond markets...
Wed, May 14 2014, 3:40 PM
Mortgage rates fell today
as the European Central Bank looks increasingly ready for a new round
of easing in June. More accommodative moneta...
Tue, May 13 2014, 3:22 PM
Mortgage rates
moved lower today after an especially weak report on Retail Sales
fueled demand for fixed-income investments like
mortgage-bac...
Mon, May 12 2014, 2:13 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher
today, adding to the corrective rebound from last week's 6-month lows.
There were no significant events or n...
Fri, May 9 2014, 2:02 PM
Mortgage rates
rose today, pulling back just slightly after spending 6 of the last 7
days in an aggressive move to the lowest levels in more th...
Thu, May 8 2014, 3:15 PM
Mortgage rates added just slightly
to yesterday's improvements, inching just a bit lower into the best
levels in more than 6 months. The bon...
Wed, May 7 2014, 3:15 PM
Mortgage rates continued pushing
into the lowest levels in more than 6 months after a docile
congressional testimony from Fed Chair Yellen th...
Tue, May 6 2014, 3:36 PM
Mortgage rates
fell back to their lowest levels of 2014, with most lenders in similar
territory to last Friday. Market movement was moderate, ...
Mon, May 5 2014, 3:35 PM
Mortgage rates
move up just slightly today, after hitting the lowest levels in 6
months at the end of last week. Some lenders who didn't get t...
Fri, May 2 2014, 2:26 PM
Mortgage rates
and many other areas of financial markets moved in shockingly
counterintuitive ways after today's big jobs report. Nonfarm payr...
Thu, May 1 2014, 3:12 PM
Mortgage rates fell at the fastest pace in over a month today
bringing them to their lowest levels since early February. The
motivation for ...
Wed, Apr 30 2014, 3:27 PM
Mortgage rates fell at a solid pace
today following a reading on 1st Quarter GDP that was much weaker than
expected. Downbeat economic data ...
Tue, Apr 29 2014, 2:23 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher today
as a result of bond market weakness late yesterday and again this
morning. Some of that weakness h...
Mon, Apr 28 2014, 2:45 PM
Mortgage rates
held almost perfectly steady today, with a handful of lenders offering
slightly lower costs while others were slightly higher. ...
Fri, Apr 25 2014, 2:44 PM
Mortgage rates
moved lower today, reaching their best levels of the week. Slumping
stocks and geopolitical concerns contributed to positivity ...
Thu, Apr 24 2014, 3:06 PM
Mortgage rates
held were mostly sideways today. In cases where rate sheets differed
from yesterday, the tendency was toward just slightly high...
Wed, Apr 23 2014, 3:14 PM
Mortgage rates
moved lower at a healthy pace today, more than erasing the past two
days of weakness, but leaving most of last Thursday's weakne...
Tue, Apr 22 2014, 2:47 PM
Mortgage rates
drifted higher for the second straight day despite a relatively flat
day for underlying bond markets. Rates pushed into their 2...
Mon, Apr 21 2014, 3:13 PM
Mortgage rates were just slightly higher
today, extending a more forceful move higher last Thursday. Whereas
markets reacted to deescalating...
Thu, Apr 17 2014, 2:38 PM
Mortgage rates moved sharply higher today
on a combination of factors including strong economic data,
developments in Ukraine, and prevailing...
Wed, Apr 16 2014, 1:43 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly highe r
today as investors continued to pull back from yesterday's
geopolitically motivated buying spree. Tensio...
Tue, Apr 15 2014, 3:05 PM
Mortgage rates
started the day in weaker territory, continuing higher for a second
straight morning. Just after 10am, headlines regarding viol...
Mon, Apr 14 2014, 3:23 PM
Mortgage rates finally ended a
move lower than began 7 business days earlier on April 3rd. The
biggest movement during that time was the Emp...
Fri, Apr 11 2014, 2:18 PM
Mortgage rates managed to hold on to
yesterday's big improvements as markets held very steady by comparison
today. If there's a slight bias,...
Thu, Apr 10 2014, 2:43 PM
Mortgage rates began the day without any hint of the drama
that was to come. The first rate sheets of the day were little-changed
compared t...
Wed, Apr 9 2014, 3:28 PM
Mortgage rates began
the day higher, but many lenders are set to end in line with
yesterday's rates after this afternoon's FOMC Minutes. These...
Tue, Apr 8 2014, 3:53 PM
Mortgage rates were lower for a 4th straight day
today, further digging in to mid-March levels, but by a smaller amount
today. In that sen...
Mon, Apr 7 2014, 3:19 PM
Mortgage rates fell again today,
bringing them to levels not seen since March 18th for many lenders.
While there was no significant economic d...
Fri, Apr 4 2014, 4:05 PM
Mortgage rates were significantly lower today ,
erasing a full week's worth of time spent moving higher in fits and
starts. The main event was ...
Thu, Apr 3 2014, 3:34 PM
Mortgage rates barely budged today,
but the little movement seen was positive on average. Keep in mind
though, that means that some lenders we...
Wed, Apr 2 2014, 3:14 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher again today,
this time taking them definitively past any of the recent highs in
March. In fact, to find rate sheet...
Tue, Apr 1 2014, 3:05 PM
Mortgage rates were relatively unchanged today,
after moving higher during the past two sessions. The stability is
somewhat counterintuitive a...
Mon, Mar 31 2014, 2:43 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today,
as part of a 2 day move following 5 straight days of improvement.
Nearly all of that improvement has be...
Fri, Mar 28 2014, 5:19 PM
Mortgage rates finally experienced a correction to
the 5-day winning streak that had carried them lower after last week's
spike. On a slightly...
Thu, Mar 27 2014, 4:07 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately lower today, further improving on what has generally been a slow-paced week of gains.
The yard-stick measuring t...
Wed, Mar 26 2014, 4:16 PM
Mortgage rates improved substantially
today, at least in the context of small day-over-day movement seen
since last week's Fed Forecasts sent r...
Tue, Mar 25 2014, 4:25 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher for some lenders today, but lower for others--holding perfectly flat on average .
There were no major disru...
Mon, Mar 24 2014, 4:46 PM
Mortgage rates moved sideways to slightly lower
today, but only after a slew of mid-day reprices from lenders. Before
that, the morning rate...
Fri, Mar 21 2014, 2:32 PM
Mortgage rates managed to move lower
today, generally erasing yesterday's increases. There was very little
by way of market-moving events to m...
Thu, Mar 20 2014, 4:09 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher for
a second straight day, extending yesterday's much larger spike. Some
lenders remained relatively close to yest...
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