Latest News Tag: Market Trends

Last Week in Review: Powell Soothes the Markets This past week home loan rates improved slightly as Fed Chair Jerome Powell was on Capitol Hill sharing the Fed's midyear economic […]

Last Week in Review: The Fed Prepares the Markets for Liftoff This past week the Federal Reserve had their June meeting and prepared the markets for liftoff, meaning when they would […]

Last Week in Review: Inflation, Fed, and the Wall This past week, home loan rates were improving slightly week-over-week until their arch-nemesis, inflation, reared its head. Let us break it […]

Last Week in Review: Real Rates and When the Music Stops This past week, home loan rates ticked up slightly but remain near three-month lows. Despite historically low rates, mortgage […]

Last Week in Review: What Goes Up Must Come Down This past week home loan rates held steady despite enormous volatility in the financial markets. Let's break down what happened […]

Last Week in Review: The Price is Wrong This past week, the yield on the 10-year note increased to its highest level in one month in response to a very […]

Last Week in Review: Yellen for Higher Rates We watched long-term rates, like mortgages, improve slightly this past week despite a surprising comment from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Let's break […]

Last Week in Review: No News is Good News In the absence of any meaningful economic reports this past week, we watched bond prices rise while rates inched lower. Oh […]

Last Week in Review: 3 Things the Financial Markets are Saying  When stocks rise, rates typically decline. When inflation moves higher, rates typically increase. As the economy reopens, rates will […]

Last Week in Review: Markets Cheer the Fed Minutes This past week the financial markets reacted to the Fed minutes from the March Fed meeting. Heading into the release last […]