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04
2025
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For It’s old news by now, but the Fed did cut the Fed Funds rate on Wednesday by .25% as expected. Mortgage rates moved up after Powell made a deliberate effort to lower the expectations for further cuts at the press...
28
2025
The Sound of Silence Darkness is indeed feeling like an old friend as we enter day 28 of the government shutdown. Missing key economic updates from the government for almost a month now has markets and the Fed in the dark on the economy. The good news is that mortgage rates held steady...
22
2025
Don’t Stop Believing Hold on to that feeling - mortgage rates have been edging slowly lower over the past two weeks as the government shutdown continues to drag on. Every day adds to the uncertainty as more employees and services are impacted. Today is day 22, making this the...
07
2025
Weekly Mortgage Rates October 7, 2025 The Waiting Is The Hardest Part Due to the government shutdown starting Tuesday night, we did not get the official BLS employment data last week. Markets had to rely on other lower-tier employment reports for clues on the...
30
2025
Weekly Mortgage Rates September 30, 2025 You Can’t Always Get What You Want To see mortgage rates drop, we need weaker economic data and lower inflation. Last week’s numbers didn’t play along. Second quarter GDP was revised higher from 3.3% to 3.8%- a...