Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch
Mortgage rates moved lower today at their fastest pace since January 14th. Rates sheets moved well past recent lows and back to levels not seen since May 10th 2013. That was the day that the Wall Street Journal’s Hilsenrath suggested the Fed was mapping an exit from stimulus , which sent markets into the tailspin that was effectively the prologue to the taper tantrum. It’s amazing, or at least interesting to consider that asset purchases have now been fully phased and that a rate hike is a much more immediate threat, yet rates are back to where they were before markets really began adjusting for all that “stuff.” That’s the power of global economic turmoil and a troubling lack of inflation for core economies. The specific result today is the greatly-increased prevalence of 3.5% as a conforming…(read more)
Via:: Mortgage Rates Shoot Past Recent Lows; 3.5% Getting More Prevalent
