Markets Calmed Down Immensely This Week. Lowest Rates since April 7th
Please note that this newsletter is fiercely apolitical. There is no judgment on whether any given political development is good…
Mortgage Rates Are Actually Much Lower This Week
Last week, there was a curious, but not uncommon juxtaposition of widespread headlines claiming “lower mortgage rates” and our own…
Biggest Weekly Jump For Rates In Quite a While. Will it Keep Going or Calm Down?
Whether we’re talking about mortgage rates or a quintessential yard stick of the rate world like the 10yr Treasury yield,…
Lowest Rates Since October as Tariffs Spark Staggering Volatility
It was a great week for fans of chaos, volatility, and low interest rates as all 3 were delivered in…
Inflation Told Rates to Rise. Rates Didn’t Listen.
Heading into the week, market watchers knew (or thought they knew) that Friday’s PCE inflation data had a chance to help…
03/21/2025 – If The Fed Didn’t Cut Rates This Week, Why Did Rates Fall
Interest rates improved fairly steadily throughout the week with the biggest drop seen after Wednesday’s Fed announcement. The Fed didn’t…
03/14/2025 – Interest Rates Has a Boring Week, and That’s a Good Thing.
Rates rocketed lower with stunning consistency starting in late February. They finally bounced last week, but rather than move back…
03/07/2025 – The Secret Reason That Rates Bounced This Week
There’s a lot for financial markets to digest at the moment. Over the past few weeks, the net effect of…
02/28/2025 – Mortgage Rates Closing in on 4 Month Lows
Rates have been almost perfectly consistent in moving lower since February 13th and broadly consistent since January 15th. There’s one…
02/21/2025 – Lowest Rates in 2 Months. Was it The Fed or Econ Data?
It ended up being another good week for rates with another Friday drop to the lowest levels in 2 months.…
