Mortgage Rates Are Actually MUCH Higher This Week

This article is not intended to report on the weekly Freddie Mac rate survey, but we'll have to reference it in order to participate in reality. To be fair, Freddie's survey is perfectly real, but it's unfortunately quite stale. That isn't always a problem, but it is today. Freddie reports that this

Wild Ride For Mortgage Rates, Should Spill Into Tomorrow Too

For anyone remotely tuned into financial news, it will come as no surprise that this has been a crazy week and today has been a crazy day.  This is just as true for stocks as it is for the bond market that dictates interest rate movement. Overnight, stocks and bonds both deteriorated substantia

Mortgage Rates Surge to Highest Levels Since February

While no one can be sure exactly how things will pan out in the long run, the market is currently expressing extreme disapproval of the new tariff plans.  While interest rates had previously benefited from some of the chaos in the stock market, that ship has sailed. Now, both sides of the marke

Worst 24 Hours For Rates So Far This Year

Tariff volatility giveth and taketh from interest rates.  Up until Friday afternoon, it's been mostly "giveth-ing."  In other words, the prospect of trade wars between the US and numerous foreign countries has generally caused weakness in the stock market and strength in the bond market (s