Rates Drop at 2017's Fastest Pace After Fed; Builder Confidence at 12-Year High

Mortgage rates fell at their fastest pace of the year following today's rate hike announcement from the Fed. If you're wondering why mortgage rates fell while the Fed's rate moved up, you're not alone. Fortunately, the explanation is simple. Financial markets had already fully accounted for the chance that the Fed would hike rates today. They'd even gone a step further an begun to account for a faster pace of future rate hikes. And it was that future outlook that allowed for our pleasant surprise. As it turns out, the median forecast among Fed members didn't see the Fed Funds rate ending the year any higher than the previous batch of forecasts (both for 2017 AND 2018). While there was no way to know exactly how much markets had prepared for the forecasts to move higher, it was certainly more

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