Fri, Feb 8 2013, 4:16 PM
Mortgage rates rose purposefully today, as mortgage-backed-securities (MBS) coped with tough trading conditions for a variety of reasons. Lenders ...
Thu, Feb 7 2013, 3:42 PM
Mortgage rates began the day in decent territory, with most lenders unchanged to slightly lower in cost vs yesterday. Trading in Mortgage-backed-s...
Wed, Feb 6 2013, 3:32 PM
Mortgage rates did a complete 180, for the second straight session. This reverses yesterday's rise in borrowing costs, taking them back in line w...
Tue, Feb 5 2013, 2:15 PM
Mortgage rates did a complete 180, reversing yesterday's improvement , and taking rates back in line with recent highs. That sounds fairly ominous,...
Mon, Feb 4 2013, 4:11 PM
Mortgage rates regained a good amount of lost ground today as most lenders' rate sheets were in line with or better than last week's rates. The ov...
Fri, Feb 1 2013, 6:10 PM
Mortgage rates were slightly higher in most cases today. The small differences between rates at the end of the day today versus yesterday don't ev...
Thu, Jan 31 2013, 4:07 PM
Mortgage rates were very slightly lower in most cases, making for marginal improvements in borrowing costs within the confines of recently higher i...
Wed, Jan 30 2013, 4:07 PM
Mortgage rates began the day at broadly higher levels, as bond markets moved higher in yield overnight and again after the morning's economic data...
Tue, Jan 29 2013, 4:37 PM
Mortgage rates began the day much improved compared to Monday's latest offerings, but the gains mostly evaporated by the end of the session. The m...
Mon, Jan 28 2013, 2:26 PM
Mortgage rates moved sharply higher again on Monday, in a continuation of Friday's aggressive weakness ( Get Caught Up With Friday's Big Moves ...
Fri, Jan 25 2013, 2:30 PM
Mortgage rates skyrocketed to their highest levels since August on Friday, both as a part of an ongoing move higher that began yesterday and more ...
Thu, Jan 24 2013, 3:27 PM
Mortgage rates bounced back from a few days of moderate improvements today. Lenders typically don't release their first rate sheets of the day ...
Wed, Jan 23 2013, 4:00 PM
Mortgage rates were more unified in their improvements today after beginning the week rather equivocally on Tuesday. Most lenders offered improved...
Tue, Jan 22 2013, 3:22 PM
Mortgage rates were mixed, leaning toward slightly improved to begin the holiday-shortened week. Several lenders' rate sheets were slightly worse ...
Mon, Jan 21 2013, 3:30 PM
So is the free refi boom over? Not quite, but we're getting close. Below I explain, first by defining "free refi," then by offering some rate market c...
Fri, Jan 18 2013, 3:07 PM
Mortgage rates were completely unchanged on Friday standing in stark contrast to Thursday's sharp move higher. While there were several lenders wh...
Thu, Jan 17 2013, 4:00 PM
Mortgage rates shot higher on Thursday matching the quickest pace of the past several months seen at the beginning of January. Although rates didn...
Wed, Jan 16 2013, 2:14 PM
Mortgage rates were higher on average on Wednesday, though some lenders didn't move with the rest of the pack. On one end of the spectrum, a few l...
Tue, Jan 15 2013, 3:27 PM
Mortgage rates improved slightly on Tuesday, extending their recent streak of improvements to 7 days. Last Thursday was the only one in that serie...
Mon, Jan 14 2013, 2:56 PM
Mortgage rates improved moderately to begin the week, bringing most lenders back to levels not seen since January 2nd or before. Following the Fis...
Fri, Jan 11 2013, 3:25 PM
Mortgage rates were essentially unchanged Today. On average, rates were slightly higher to begin the day, but an afternoon reversal in bond marke...
Thu, Jan 10 2013, 4:36 PM
Mortgage rates leveled off on Thursday, after moving gently lower on the first three days of the week. Bond markets such as US Treasuries began the d...
Wed, Jan 9 2013, 4:08 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower again today , marking the third straight session of recovery after being launched higher last week. The magnitu...
Tue, Jan 8 2013, 1:58 PM
Mortgage rates continued to inch lower on average after rising to the highest levels since September at the end of last week. There were no signif...
Mon, Jan 7 2013, 2:07 PM
Mortgage rates managed to catch their breath today after rising at the fastest pace since March on from Wednesday through Friday last week. Some lend...
Fri, Jan 4 2013, 5:07 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today, reaching their worst levels since before the Fed announced the specific buying program of Mortgage-Backed-Secur...
Thu, Jan 3 2013, 5:05 PM
Mortgage rates soared to their highest levels in months today after Minutes from the Fed's most recent policy meeting showed the board to be more divi...
Wed, Jan 2 2013, 2:48 PM
Mortgage rates moved to their highest levels since December 19th this morning after Congress passed a last-minute bill softening the blow of the F...
Mon, Dec 31 2012, 1:26 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately higher to end the year, reversing last week's trend of small improvements. In Washington, Fiscal Cliff negotiations h...
Fri, Dec 28 2012, 2:55 PM
Mortgage
rates continued a moderate trend of improvement from
mid-week, bringing rates to their best levels of the week on Friday.
All of th...
Thu, Dec 27 2012, 2:30 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower on Thursday after markets received
their first Fiscal Cliff update of the week. Earlier this morning,
Senate ...
Wed, Dec 26 2012, 12:57 PM
Mortgage
rates remained essentially unchanged this week as markets are
essentially still closed for the Christmas holiday. Technically,
fina...
Mon, Dec 24 2012, 12:24 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly higher on Monday, though there were no material market movements driving the change. Lenders are erring on the side ...
Fri, Dec 21 2012, 1:26 PM
Mortgage rates fell moderately to end the week after the House of Representatives failed to pass a tax and spending bill aimed at averting Fiscal Clif...
Thu, Dec 20 2012, 1:33 PM
The market movements that underpin the day to day changes in mortgage rates generally conveyed a sense of uncertainty and waiting as the busiest m...
Wed, Dec 19 2012, 2:55 PM
The tone of Fiscal Cliff news shifted from comprommisory back to combative today, helping Mortgage rates recover from Tuesday's multi-month highs ....
Tue, Dec 18 2012, 3:47 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher at the quickest pace in weeks on Tuesday as politicians convey an increasing sense of compromise regarding Fiscal Cliff...
Mon, Dec 17 2012, 2:24 PM
Mortgage
rates moved slightly higher to begin the last full week of
2012 after fighting back against recent weakness on Friday. Bond
markets...
Fri, Dec 14 2012, 3:37 PM
Mortgage
rates moved slightly lower to end the week after having risen to the highest levels
of the month yesterday. That was part of a two ...
Thu, Dec 13 2012, 4:01 PM
Mortgage
rates continued higher on Thursday following
stronger-than-expected economic data and continuing the losses after
yesterday's FOMC a...
Wed, Dec 12 2012, 4:09 PM
Mortgage
rates are higher on average after today's monetary policy
announcement from the Federal Reserve. Some lenders adjusted rates
higher...
Tue, Dec 11 2012, 2:00 PM
Mortgage
rates are little changed from Monday. Some lenders' rate
sheets are slightly improved versus yesterday's, but a majority offered
ju...
Mon, Dec 10 2012, 1:27 PM
Mortgage
rates are very slightly lower today compared to Friday's
latest offerings. However, Friday's rates were the highest of the week
aft...
Fri, Dec 7 2012, 3:07 PM
Mortgage
rates moved higher at their fastest pace in over two weeks
following Friday's Employment Situation Report. In a historical
context,...
Thu, Dec 6 2012, 2:38 PM
Mortgage
rates were completely flat versus yesterday's offerings to
begin the day but several lenders recalled rate sheets for negative
revis...
Wed, Dec 5 2012, 3:47 PM
Mortgage
rates were slightly lower again on Wednesday. Even though
the day to day movements have been small, that gets us as close as we've
...
Tue, Dec 4 2012, 2:34 PM
Mortgage rates continued yesterday afternoon's positive momentum , moving back to their best recent levels. The underlying financial markets were...
Mon, Dec 3 2012, 3:17 PM
Mortgage rates began the day in weaker territory , but were able to make it back to Friday's levels as most lenders improved pricing in the afternoo...
Fri, Nov 30 2012, 2:50 PM
Mortgage
rates moved lower on Friday , ending the week and the month in
line with their best levels in nearly two months. Today's improvements
...
Thu, Nov 29 2012, 2:39 PM
Mortgage
rates moved slightly higher on Thursday , depending on the lender, and whether or not they released negatively revised rate sheets yest...
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