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Rates Rising as Fed Heads to Jackson Hole

A normally innocuous event last week sent mortgage rates higher. The opening line of the Fed’s Meeting Minutes, “uncertainty of the U.S. economic outlook remains elevated…” confirmed for traders that we still don’t have certainty about the direction of inflation. Uncertainty and inflation are two of the arch enemy’s of mortgage rates, and when they

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