Today’s podcast was fun as we discussed why mortgage rates and bond yields rose this week when the Fed did a bigger-than-anticipated rate cut. Remember, the Fed will always be slow, and the bond market will always get ahead of the Fed first. So, we have a lot Fed easing priced into the mortgage and bond market now.
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Phoenix Twice
New Hampshire
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Denver
Dallas Twice
Chicago
Boise
And a few more
Every weekend, HousingWire brings out the weekly HousingWire Tracker report, in which I take a deep dive into the current and forward-looking housing data lines so you can be up to date with the data lines that matter in housing
I recently wrote about why mortgage rates rose on the day the cut the Fed Funds rate by 0.50%.
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Logan Mohtashami is a Lead Analyst for Housing Wire, a financial writer, and a blogger covering the U.S. economy with a specialization in the housing market. Logan Mohtashami, now retired, spends his days and nights looking at charts and nothing else.