Last week’s biggest economic headline centered on inflation news and the consumer price data that came out showing the CPI (consumer price index) rising by 0.6 percent for the month, higher than expected. The main reason? Energy prices, mainly oil prices, which, if you’ve been to the gas station recently, is no surprise. The core
Last week’s ‘bad’ news is good news for mortgage borrowers as we saw a nice improvement in rates. The weekly survey of average mortgage rate published by Freddie Mac showed rates breaking their momentum higher following worse than expected news from a leading indicator in the job market, inflation, and consumer confidence. The JOLTS report,
If you’ve been following economic news, then you likely have seen the headlines that mortgage rates continue to climb. According to Freddie Mac’s most recent survey of average rates, published last week, the 30-year rate has risen to its highest level since 2001. This precipitous climb over the past few weeks has come largely as
Well, even though August is vacation time for many, me included, mortgage rates have not taken a vacation from hiking higher. For the third week in a row, rates have risen bit by bit, according to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey of average rates. Yes, it makes homes less affordable, but rates rise as a result
As expected, the Fed raised their key interest rate at their meeting last week. Fed Chair Powell commented after the announcement that they will be monitoring conditions and will raise again in September if conditions warrant. We’ll see. He said they’ll be watching the inflation numbers and two jobs reports that come out in the
Last week’s favorable report on consumer inflation helped mortgage rates improve nicely just in time for the release of Freddie Mac’s weekly mortgage rate report. In it, we saw a healthy decrease in average mortgage rates for both 30-year and 15-year fixed-rate loans. However, that was last week and this is this week. This week
Last week’s inflation data showed a further slowing in the pace of inflation, which is good news for the growth and health of the economy. Since we’re discussing inflation, I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind you of the relationship between inflation and mortgage rates. In general, higher inflation also means the price of
As we begin a holiday-shortened week due to the Juneteenth Holiday, we saw rates end last week taking pause as markets digest the events of last week including the Fed pausing its rate hikes and giving some clues as to what it will do in the future. There was also interesting inflation data and lots
A big Fed Meeting this week had traders and markets holding their collective breaths. The latest inflation readings show consumer prices increasing at the smallest rate in more than two years. Analysts were hopeful that the Fed would pause their rate increases, which they announced today they would pause interest rate increases. Mortgage rates barely
Happy 2023 friend! I hope your holiday season was magical! We had an especially magical Christmas and welcomed our baby girl Catherine on December 19th. She is perfect in every way and we are loving being parents. We couldn’t be happier! And now, it’s time to get down to the business of a new year!
