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Mortgage rates showed no signs of falling yesterday. And we doubt that will change much until we see movement in the Middle ...

The challenges facing Kevin Warsh as he takes up his post as Fed chair will be huge. Will they affect mortgage rates?

The weekly average mortgage rate for 30-year fixed-rate loans came in at 6.01%, according to Freddie Mac's latest survey, published yesterday. That's very close to last night's daily average, which I ...

Mortgage rates climbed sharply on Friday. And we doubt that anything short of positive solid news about the Strait of Hormuz ...

Last week was grim for mortgage rates. The average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ended Friday at 6.47%, up from 6.32% on Monday, according to ICanBuy. Mortgage News Daily (MND) reckons they're ...

"The world's most important number might be the yield on ten-year American Treasury bonds," wrote The Economist magazine in an e-newsletter over the weekend. "The government's cost of borrowing ...

Mortgage rates barely budged yesterday, tempting us to grab the hesitation-at-the-top-of-a-roller-coaster metaphor. But, as most analogies are, this one is far from perfect (though it matched the ...

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Mortgage rates barely moved yesterday as markets held their nerve and remained optimistic about an early resolution to the Middle East dispute. We're not alone in fearing that such optimism might be ...

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