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Last Week in Review: Yellen for Higher Rates We watched long-term rates, like mortgages, improve slightly this past week despite a surprising comment from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Let’s break it all down and look at what’s on tap for next week. “It may be that interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make […]

Last Week in Review: 3 Things the Financial Markets are Saying  When stocks rise, rates typically decline. When inflation moves higher, rates typically increase. As the economy reopens, rates will rise. Well, stocks rallied to all-time highs, inflation spiked, and the economy continues to reopen. However, rates improved to the best levels in a month. […]

Last Week in Review: Markets Cheer the Fed Minutes This past week the financial markets reacted to the Fed minutes from the March Fed meeting. Heading into the release last Wednesday, the markets were on edge for three reasons: Would the Fed signal tapering of bond purchases? Would the Fed hint that rates will be […]

Last Week in Review: Markets React to the American Job Pain This past week was filled with a lot of market-moving news for the mortgage and housing industry. By week’s end, interest rates continued to stabilize, while stocks set new all-time highs. Let’s break it all down: Enormous Government Spending on the Way On Wednesday, […]

Last Week in Review: Rates May Have Just Peaked… This Is Why We watched long-term interest rates improve nicely this past week from the highest levels in over a year. The recent chatter about higher inflation has cooled down, allowing other themes to come in and influence stocks and interest rates. It was mostly negative […]

Last Week In Review: The Fed Spoke and Bonds Didn’t Listen This past week the Federal Reserve issued their monetary policy statement, as well as new forecasts on the economy, inflation, and rates. Despite all the soft talk on inflation and seeming lack of concern on higher prices ahead, the bond market was not buying […]

The Last Week In Review: Two Big Things Moving The Market The volatility in the financial markets continued this past week, and at the end of it all, home loan rates were pretty much unchanged. Let’s break down two big things moving the markets. More, More, More 1. This past Wednesday, Congress passed a whopping […]

Last Week in Review: The Fed, Inflation, and a Twist  Home loan rates improved modestly week-over-week as the U.S. bond market attempts to stabilize after a sharp increase in rates. Back on Thursday, February 25th, the 10-year yield hit 1.61% and has since declined back beneath 1.50%. This helped mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which drive home […]

Last Week In Review: Rates Go on Vacation Longer-term U.S. interest rates, including home loan rates, remain on the rise. The big story of the week is Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill to provide his real-time assessment of the economy and rates while attempting to “sell” the notion that higher inflation will not […]

Last Week in Review: Three Things to Know This Week Longer-term U.S. interest rates, including home loan rates, increased sharply this past week, touching pre-COVID levels. Let’s break down the cause and effect as well as some other stories affecting housing. January Retail Sales Highlight Pent up Consumer Demand Retail Sales is a monthly report […]