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The Fed is Cutting Rates Next Week, But Not Mortgage Rates!
The end of October brings the next Fed announcement and it is a 100% certainty that they will be cutting rates again. Many people believe this means lower mortgage rates. Many people are wrong.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Small Victory For Rates as Market Waits For Data
It was a much less eventful week than it might have been if the jobs report had been released on schedule, but rates were nonetheless able to inch down to the lowest levels since Fed Day.
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October 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Rates Back to 7%. What Will It Take For Them to Drop?
Rates Back to 7%. What Will It Take For Them to Drop?
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May 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Some Uncertainty at The End of an Otherwise Decent Week
With 15 minutes left in the trading day, Moody's delivered a weekend surprise that may result in another volatile start in the week ahead.
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May 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Fed Rate Expectations Have Fully Erased The Tariff Impact (For Now)
The market is constantly making bets on where the Fed Funds Rate will end up for any given moment many months into the future. As such, that rate expectation is constantly changing. It will continue ...
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May 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Rates Move Up After Stronger Economic Data
Whether you refer to it as "strong," or "not as bad as feared," this week's economic reports were better than the market was prepared for. The result is moderately higher rates.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Markets Calmed Down Immensely This Week. Lowest Rates since April 7th
Significant market volatility has been all over the news since the April 2nd tariff announcement, but this week went a long way toward restoring a sense of calm.
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April 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Mortgage Rates Are Actually Much Lower This Week
Last week, there was a curious, but not uncommon juxtaposition of widespread headlines claiming "lower mortgage rates" and our own headline suggesting one of the biggest weekly jumps in years. Neithe...
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April 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Mortgage rates have spiked as a result of the Trump Tax (tariffs) following a treasury selloff that began on Friday, April 4th, and caused Trump to cave on Wednesday, April 7th. I'm not sure this was/is part of "The Plan."
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Biggest Weekly Jump For Rates In Quite a While. Will it Keep Going or Calm Down?
Whether we're talking about mortgage rates or a quintessential yard stick of the rate world like the 10yr Treasury yield, it was the roughest week in quite a while.
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April 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Lowest Rates Since October as Tariffs Spark Staggering Volatility
It was a great week for fans of chaos, volatility, and low interest rates.
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April 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Inflation Told Rates to Rise. Rates Didn't Listen
When inflation came out higher than expected on Friday morning, market watchers knew (or thought they knew) what would happen next. But instead, the opposite happened.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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If The Fed Didn't Cut Rates This Week, Why Did Rates Fall?
Interest rates improved fairly steadily throughout the week with the biggest drop seen after Wednesday's Fed announcement. But the Fed didn't cut rates.
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March 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Interest Rates Had a Boring Week, And That's a Good Thing
Rates rocketed lower with stunning consistency starting in late February. They finally bounced last week, but rather than move back up to previous levels, they held in a relatively narrow, sideways ra...
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March 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The Secret Reason That Rates Bounced This Week
There's a lot for financial markets to digest at the moment. Over the past few weeks, the net effect of that digestion has been good for bonds/rates and bad for stocks. But the prevailing correlation...
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March 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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