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Compliance, Broker Products; MBA on Credit Costs; LO Strategy for Aging Buyers; Pulte and Grand Jury
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:52:53 GMT
Want better affordability? Lower house prices certainly helps, and this article states that more than half of homes in the United States have fallen in price in the last year. Forget interest rates: Certainly, there are fewer willing buyers when they..[read more]
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10yr Flirting With 4.0%, But Not Because of Data
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:53:39 GMT
ADP's weekly employment report showed another contraction at -13.5k, but unlike last week, no one seems to care. We also got the delayed release of Retail Sales with a notably weak -0.1 vs 0.3 control group, and backlogged PPI that was just a hair co..[read more]
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Lowest Yields in Almost 4 Weeks Despite Ongoing Stock Market Recovery
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:39:10 GMT
Lowest Yields in Almost 4 Weeks Despite Ongoing Stock Market Recovery There's no question that stock prices and bond yields have had more than the normal amount of correlation recently. While that created some ri..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Slightly Lower to Start Holiday-Shortened Week
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:15:00 GMT
Thanksgiving weeks can be weird for mortgage rates. This has to do with the fact that rates are dictated by the bond market and the bond market depends on real live people who can actually be out of the office on holiday weeks. The lighter levels of ..[read more]
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HELOC, CES, Automation, Climate Analysis Products; Webcasts and Training This Week
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:45:24 GMT
"Remember to bring up politics at Thanksgiving to save some money on Christmas presents.' "What do tornadoes and Tennessee divorces have in common? Someone's going to lose a mobile home.' (My father's family is from there, so I can use that one.) Mob..[read more]
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Bonds Inch to Best Levels in Over 3 Weeks
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:04:39 GMT
It's a data-free Monday on a holiday-shortened week and there aren't any high-impact headlines or massive stock swings to spark any serious bond market movement. Nonetheless, bonds have found a reason to rally ever-so-slightly this morning. Because y..[read more]
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Bonds Hold Gains Despite Ongoing Recovery in Stocks
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:04:10 GMT
Bonds Hold Gains Despite Ongoing Recovery in Stocks The stock market factored into the bond market's performance on Friday. In pre-market trading stocks managed a big bounce after NY Fed's Williams spoke fa..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Nudge Lower to Remain In The Same Old Range
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:53:00 GMT
Recent stock market losses have gotten a lot attention in the news recently. While there's no reliable correlation between stocks and interest rates, when stock losses are as big as they have been recently, it increases the tendency for rates to move..[read more]
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Small Steps Higher, Same Stubbornly Low Territory for Existing Home Sales
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:45:00 GMT
Existing-home sales posted another modest gain in October, rising 1.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.10 million , according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sales are now 1.7% higher than a year ago as lower mortgage rates ..[read more]
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Rising Rates Pull Applications Lower, but Year-Over-Year Gains Hold Firm
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:37:00 GMT
Mortgage applications moved lower last week as rates continued drifting higher for a third straight week. MBA's Weekly Applications Survey for the week ending November 14 showed a 5.2% drop in total volume on a seasonally adjusted basis and a 7% decl..[read more]
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