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.…
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…
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