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Holiday Week Volatility With Zero Consequence
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:55:38 GMT
Holiday Week Volatility With Zero Consequence Although there was a brief negative reaction to this morning's economic data, the impact was minimal. Random holiday-week volatility accounted for bigger swings, but ..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Slightly Higher, But Remain Near Long-Term Lows
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:52:00 GMT
Wednesday was far less eventful than the first two days of the week as far as mortgage rates were concerned. The average lender raised rates just a hair, but apart from yesterday, these are the lowest levels in a month and very close to the lowest le..[read more]
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Credit Union Compliance, HELOC Products; Conventional Conforming Loan Limits and Other Fannie/Freddie News
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:42:53 GMT
The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here! Oh, wait a minute. The new conventional conforming loan limits are here! The new conventional conforming loan limits are here! True, lenders that are entirely focused on non-Agency products ..[read more]
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Stronger Data. Weaker Start For Bonds
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:55:00 GMT
Bonds were just slightly weaker overnight but are losing more ground in early trading. The culprit: both of this morning's 8:30am ET economic releases. Jobless Claims data is probably the bigger deal as it continues to show no signs of la..[read more]
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Best Closing Levels in Nearly a Month
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:08:48 GMT
Best Closing Levels in Nearly a Month Bonds improved only moderately on Tuesday in a move that's just as easily chalked up to random holiday-week volatility as any of the day's data/events. If we're determi..[read more]
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Lowest Mortgage Rates Since 10/28 And Very Close to 3-Year Lows
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:04:00 GMT
Mortgage rates moved nicely lower on Tuesday with the average lender very close to the 2025 lows seen in late October. These levels are effectively right in line with the lowest since late 2022. If today's drop seems abrupt, that's because it is. In..[read more]
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Conforming Loan Limit Rises to $832,750 Amid Lowest Home Price Growth Since 2012
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:13:00 GMT
Both the FHFA and the S&P/Cotality Case-Shiller home-price indices released new data this week. The message remains consistent: home prices are still higher than a year ago, but the pace of appreciation continues to slow. FHFA's national index shows..[read more]
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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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