Massive Jump in Mortgage Rates After Jobs Report
Today's much-anticipated jobs report ended up coming out much stronger than expected. A stronger result was all but guaranteed to cause carnage (relative) in the mortgage market and that's definitely what we're seeing. A caveat is that rates are still much lower than they were several months ago, but the average lender is now back in line with mid August levels. Additionally, this is one of the largest single day jumps we've seen with the average 30yr fixed rate moving from 6.26 to 6.53.
A move of more than 0.25% in a single day is tremendously uncommon, but it can happen due to the underlying structure of the mortgage bond market. For those who would like to nerd out on those details, here you go:
Whether a mortgage lender is lending their own stockpiles of cash or temporary
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