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.…
02/14/2025 – The Unlikely Story of Mortgage Rates Falling to 2 Month Lows Despite Higher Inflation
The final two days of the present week weren’t on many bingo cards as of Wednesday afternoon. At the time,…
02/07/2025 – Despite Apparent Volatility, Rates Have Been Surprisingly Calm
It would be more than fair to expect elevated market volatility based on the quantity and tone of recent news…
01/31/2025 – Bonds Brace for Tariff Impact, Just Like Last Time
Jan 31, 2025 4:33 PM ET Spoiler alert: no one really knows how tariffs are going to impact the market yet.…
01/24/2025 – Can Trump Actually Force Rates to Move Lower?
It turned out to be an intensely boring week for mortgage rates. The average lender stayed right in line with…
01/17/2025 – Rates Recover After Tame Inflation Data
Last week’s big to-do was the jobs report, which sent rates sharply higher. This week’s inflation data had a chance…
01/10/2025 – Highest Mortgage Rates in 7 Months After Upbeat Jobs Report
Mortgage rates weren’t having a great week in the first place. As of Wednesday, the average lender was already up…
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