Thursday, October 4, 2018

Rates Anything But Lower This Week! Record-High FICOs, but Mortgage Credit Tightens

If you don't happen to make it past this first sentence, just know that anyone telling you rates are much higher today is NOT lying to you. Anyone telling you the opposite is wrong, even though they may not understand why they're wrong. Coming to such an understanding is no harder than reading the next few paragraphs. Mortgage rates can be tricky to follow, at first glance. They're not quite like other rates that move frequently throughout the day and that are published in a standardized format in multiple obvious locations. I'm thinking of something like the 10yr Treasury yield for the sake of comparison. In fairly short order, it would be easy to find multiple sources on the web that are telling you the same story on 10yr yields. But when it comes to mortgage rates, you're likely to get several

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http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/reports/newsletter/2018/10/4/3578

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