This holiday-shortened week brings us the release of five relevant economic reports for the markets to digest in addition to Treasury auctions that have the potential to influence bond trading and mortgage rates. None of the reports are considered to be key data, but all of them do carry enough s
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05/27/2014
Very little obvious change in this past week's economic indicators. International currencies continued to move in close proximity with one another; interest rates barely budged; the most influential mortgage rates moved hardly at all (again); and the minimal changes to monthly retail sales data
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05/19/2014
This week brings us the release of only three pieces of relevant economic news in addition to the minutes from the most recent FOMC meeting. None of the economic data is considered to be highly important to the markets and mortgage rates, but they do carry enough significance to influence mortgag
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05/19/2014
This week has little scheduled in terms of economic data that is expected to drive bond trading and mortgage rates. There are only two relevant monthly or quarterly economic reports on the calendar and both are considered to be fairly insignificant. We do, however, have two Treasury auctions that
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05/05/2014
This week brings us the release of eight economic reports that may affect mortgage rates in addition to a two-day FOMC meeting. Three of the week’s reports are considered to be extremely important to the financial and mortgage markets and can cause a great deal of volatility. Throw in the FOMC me
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04/27/2014
This week has five pieces of economic data for the markets to digest in addition to two potentially relevant Treasury auctions. It will be interesting to see what transpires tomorrow morning when the markets open after the long weekend. The U.S. markets were closed Friday in observance of the Goo
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04/21/2014
This week brings us the release of only two monthly economic reports that are relevant to mortgage rates, in addition to a couple of Treasury auctions and the minutes from the last FOMC meeting that have the potential to be influential on the bond market and mortgage pricing. Corporate earnings s
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04/06/2014
This week brings us the release of five economic reports that have the potential to move mortgage rates with two of them considered to be highly important to the markets. The week kicks off tomorrow with none of those reports but we do have a public speaking engagement by Fed Chairman Yellen. S
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03/31/2014
This week brings us the release of only three relevant economic reports along with two Treasury auctions for the markets to digest. Two of the three reports are considered highly important, so we could see a fair amount of movement in rates again the latter part of the week. There is nothing of r
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03/10/2014
This Week's Mortgage Interest Rate Trends: This week has seven relevant reports for the markets to digest with two being considered highly important. The rest of the reports are moderate to fairly important to the markets, meaning they have the potential to affect mortgage rates but usually don
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03/02/2014
