• Mortgage Rates Started Higher, But Ended Lower,

    Mortgage Rates Started Higher, But Ended Lower

    Low Volatility Session Ahead of Fed Day 4 out of the year's 8 Fed announcements include an updated dot plot (i.e. a chart of each Fed member's projection for the Fed Funds Rate at the end of the next few years). Dots have come to be viewed as one of the biggest

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  • Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Over The Weekend,

    Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Over The Weekend

    Mixed Reaction to Retail Sales Makes For a Boring Monday Despite coming in much weaker than expected, Retail Sales (the day's only big-ticket market mover) didn't provide much help for bonds. The catch was that the key internal component (the control group, aka

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  • Mortgage Rates Hold Very Steady, Yet Again,

    Mortgage Rates Hold Very Steady, Yet Again

    Despite some ups and downs on a small scale, mortgage rates have been sideways in the bigger picture.  That's a good thing if the latest refi application data is any indication.  Demand is at the highest levels since October as rates have generally been holding near mid-October levels. Today was

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