Market Perspective

Overview: Following the aggressive monetary policy tightening by the Federal Reserve at last week’s meeting, mortgage rates reached their...

Overview: Inflation concerns continued to be the primary focus for investors over the past week. It was a packed week with both U.S....

Overview: Over the past week, the biggest economic news was key labor market data, and it was close to expectations overall. As investors...

Overview: Over the past week, there was little news to cause investors to change their outlook for inflation or future Federal Reserve...

Overview: Over the past week, increased concern that the pace of global economic growth may be slowing was positive for mortgage markets,...

Overview: Over the past week, stronger than expected consumer spending data and tough talk on inflation from the Federal Reserve were...

Overview: With major labor market and inflation data, mortgage rates remained very volatile over the past week. The daily movements were...

Overview: Over the past week, investors remained focused on elevated levels of inflation and the resulting monetary policy tightening...

Overview: Over the past week, investors balanced the impact of two opposing forces on mortgage rates. For months, the main influence has...

Overview: Over the past week, investors remained focused on elevated levels of inflation and the resulting monetary policy tightening...

Overview: Over the past week, investors remained focused on elevated levels of inflation. The most recent readings revealed additional...

Overview: Although Federal Reserve officials have become increasingly hawkish (in favor of tighter monetary policy) in recent weeks,...

Overview: While mortgage markets remained very volatile over the past week, there was little news to significantly change the outlook for...

Overview: Over the past week, investor expectations increased yet again for the pace of tightening by the Federal Reserve, which was...

Overview: Over the past week, shifting expectations for a resolution to the Ukraine conflict continued to cause daily volatility in...

Overview: Over the past week, investors continued to react to shifting expectations for a resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. Daily...

Overview: The dominant influence on mortgage markets over the past week was the conflict in Ukraine, which caused investors to shift to...

Over the past week, headlines about Ukraine and shifting expectations for future Federal Reserve policy caused some daily volatility for...

Overview: Over the past week, a wide range of events created a great deal of volatility for mortgage markets and pushed rates higher. The...

Overview: Over the past week, the primary focus was on Friday’s key labor market report, which revealed much stronger than expected...