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Here's What Changed in The New Fed Announcement
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (209+ words) The Federal Open Market Committee approved the following statement for release by a 12 9 – 0 3 vote: The Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent, in support of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate. The Committee…...
Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher Despite No Fed Rate Hike
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (258+ words) Heading into today's Fed announcement, futures markets indicated roughly a 1 in 3 chance that the Fed would hike rates. They did not. This seems like it should have been good news for rates, but there's a catch. Rates exist on a…...
Mortgage Rates Roughly Unchanged Versus Friday's Lows
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (376+ words) After bottoming out around 6.5% in late June, mortgage rates moved steadily higher this month, ultimately hitting 6.85% last Thursday--the highest level in over a year. There was a modest recovery on Friday with a fair amount of intraday changes from…...
Mortgage Rates Recover Modestly From Long-Term Highs
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (397+ words) If you're just tuning in, mortgage rates had a rough day yesterday on top of a rough week overall. The result was the highest 30yr fixed rate in over a year with our index moving up to 6.85%. As has been and…...
Token Support in Bonds After Oil Drops Overnight
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (269+ words) It's a straightforward morning in the bond market. We're not seeing any of the sorts of "unseen hand" trading that accounted for the timing of yesterday's pre-market weakness. We simply have oil prices erasing about half of yesterday's rise. Bond…...
Bonds Not Keen To Catch Falling Knives
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (519+ words) Oil lurched higher again overnight which kept generalized pressure on the bond market and the Fed rate outlook. The nearness to long-term highs had traders feeling very reluctant to step in and "buy the dip" in bond prices. This is…...
Mortgage Rates Inch Up to 11-Month High
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (416+ words) We have bad news and slightly less bad news. Starting with the latter, today's mortgage rates are only marginally higher than they were yesterday with the average top tier 30yr fixed rate up 0.02%. The bad news is that this takes our…...
Rates Match Longer-Term High For The 3rd Time in 2026
1+ week, 1+ day ago (435+ words) In late July, 2025, 30yr fixed rates embarked on an excellent adventure, moving down from 6.75% on July 31st to 5.99% by late February, 2026. Since then, things haven't been great thanks to war-related fuel price drama and stronger econ data (the supreme court ruling on…...
Bonds Grudgingly Giving Back Last Week's Inflation Rally
1+ week, 1+ day ago (354+ words) While last week's CPI and PPI reports were unabashedly great news, the bond market spent Friday and yesterday gradually unwinding most of the resulting gains. The least complicated way to approach this phenomenon would be to observe that fuel prices…...
Mortgage Rates Bouncing Higher to Start The Week
1+ week, 2+ day ago (281+ words) Last week ended on a promising note with Friday's rates falling just barely below the previous Friday's levels. This was a relief after the top-tier 30yr fixed rate matched 11-month highs for the average lender earlier in the week. Unfortunately, rates…...