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Are mortgage rates going up? Are mortgage rates going down? I am a regular participant in the Bankrate.com Mortgage Rate Trend survey and this week's survey may point you in the right direction.

Are mortgage rates going up? Are mortgage rates going down? I am a regular participant in the Bankrate.com Mortgage Rate Trend survey and this week's survey may point you in the right direction. Here's what I told Bankrate.com: "Demand for dollars-denominated bonds helps rates to ease lower."

Are mortgage rates going up? Are mortgage rates going down? I am a regular participant in the Bankrate.com Mortgage Rate Trend survey and this week's survey may point you in the right direction.
The Bankrate.com survey is for conforming mortgages only. It does not apply to FHA mortgages, VA mortgages, jumbo mortgages, or super jumbo mortgages. [...]

Mortgage markets are a sensitive beast. Just the slightest breeze and they're all shook up. It's one reason why this blog covers such a wide berth. Jobs, housing, consumer confidence, spending -- it's all relevant. Each moves markets in its own right. And when mortgage markets move, mortgage rates move.

Are mortgage rates going up? Are mortgage rates going down? I am a regular participant in the Bankrate.com Mortgage Rate Trend survey and this week's survey may point you in the right direction.

If we study the long-term mortgage rate pattern dating back to late-2008, we observe that mortgage rates have bounced within in a tight range for nearly 8 months, only breaking the upper and lower boundaries for brief moments in time. Conforming mortgage rates appear to be "stuck" near 5.250 percent with 0 points.

Americans no longer have Recession on the Brain like they did last September and October. Back then, the financial crisis was the leading story of every news-related show on TV and in print. The notable absence of these The End Of The World As We Know It-like messages may be one reason why consumer purse strings are starting to loosen. For the fourth straight month in May, Retail Sales figures were hotter-than-expected.

5 weeks ago, Wall Street was mostly convinced that the economy was about to turn a corner. At the time, traders were piling into the stock market, chasing big gains and selling everything risk-averse. Mortgage bonds were in very low demand and the supply glut pushed rates north of 6 percent. Since then, the world has calmed down a bit. Housing and manufacturing continue to show strength, but some key pockets of economic weakness have poked investors into taking some profits off the table.

today, mortgage rates are still higher than the government's "ideal" sub-5 percent level, but Wall Street isn't worrying about inflation as much. Data has improved in a lot of sectors, but it can't necessarily be categorized as "strong". Plus, gas prices are falling. Both of these developments are...

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With rising mortgage rates threatening the housing market's recovery and the employment sector showing signs of life, there was this pervasive nervousness on Wall Street pre-FOMC that the Fed would make a bold statement to keep the economy on track. This would have been awful for mortgage rates. ...

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