Mortgage rates didn't move yesterday, despite a moderate amount of improvement in underlying bond markets. When bonds improve, rates tend to move lower, but there can be a lag for a few reasons. As we often discuss, bonds need to move by a certain amount during the day in order for lenders to go to trouble of changing their rate sheet offerings. If there hasn't been enough market movement, the typical practice is to simply wait to adjust rate sheets on the following morning. All too often, when lenders wait to make such adjustments, the bond market will bounce back toward weaker levels, thus leaving mortgage rates unchanged, even when markets suggest otherwise. Other times, bond markets will continue moving in a friendly direction in the following day. That's what happened today, and it allowed

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