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What’s pushing mortgage rates higher?

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates and bond yields kept rising Tuesday as the job openings unexpectedly increased more than anticipated. And will job openings continue higher, pushing mortgage rates even higher in the future? As I write this article today, the 10-year yield is 4.79%, with mortgage rates at 7.72%. million and 5.7

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What happens after the Fed’s rate hike?

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve will hold another meeting this week, where everyone assumes we will get another 75 bps rate hike. The question is: how many more rate hikes are left? And, once they’re done hiking rates, will the Fed need to keep rates high because the consumer balance sheet looks so good?

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Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?

Housing Wire

The entire economic landscape, including mortgage rates, has changed this week, starting with the Fed’s talking points on Wednesday. We now have a better idea of what the Federal Reserve wants to do with their Fed rate hikes, and we have a lot of data that shows that the economy will look different 12 months from now.

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Solid jobs report sends mortgage rates lower

Housing Wire

Mortgage rates fell aggressively down to 6.20%, putting us at more than 1% below the highs of 2022. The bond market saw that wage growth was cooling down, leaving the Federal Reserve with few reasons to keep the rate hike story going much longer. And now, the growth rate of inflation is falling. Job report.

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Is inflation or recession driving mortgage rates now?

Housing Wire

On Tuesday, we got more confirmation that the Federal Reserve ‘s biggest fear — inflation blowing up to 1970s levels — isn’t happening, according to the CPI data. As we can see from the chart below, while the inflation data is cooling down, it’s not cooling down fast enough for the Fed. percent in January, the U.S.

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Logan Mohtashami’s 2023 housing market forecast

Housing Wire

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. What did I get wrong?

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Are 1970s inflation and mortgage rates possible?

Housing Wire

So, what should we take away from this number, seeing that market participants are still worried about 1970s inflation and some don’t want to see any rate cuts this year? After today’s inflation report, is this even a possibility with the current economic conditions? The core PCE inflation data that the Fed focuses on is a t 2.8%

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