Mortgage Rates Back to Highest Levels in a Week

It's been a bummer of a week for mortgage rates with modest to moderate increases every day so far.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that there hasn't been any compelling reason for the increase as far as this week's new economic data is concerned. Economic data is a constant consideration

Mortgage Rates Started Lower, But Ended Higher

Mortgage rates were having a pretty decent day at first.  The bond market was only slightly weaker overnight (implies some upward pressure on rates), but quickly improved after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data at 8:30am ET.  Notably, CPI was right in line with forecasts--something that

Mortgage Rates Moving Back Up

Between November 18th and December 6th, the average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate moved down from 7.08 to 6.68.  A 0.40% drop is rather significant, especially over the course of only 3 weeks.  Over the past 2 days, however, we've lost a quarter of that improvement. Today saw rates inc

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