Mortgage rates feel pretty hopeless right now. They’ve risen from sub-6% to the mid-7s in just the past six months. With a meteoric rise over the past month, climbing nearly a full percentage point. A...

The Federal Reserve is almost guaranteed to hike rates today. Odds are currently around 93%, per CME FedWatch, meaning it’s basically a sure thing. In the Fed’s history, they’ve never defied odds like...

Mortgage rates have already had a rough couple of weeks. But it could get even worse if a pair of inflation reports come in hot later this week. We’ve got both the Producer Price Index (PPI) and Consu...

A lot of the recent uptick in mortgage rates has been attributed to the ongoing war with Iran. But there is perhaps another, lesser known reason mortgage rates have pushed back into the high 6s. And i...

Just as it appeared there was no relief in sight for mortgage rates, the Treasury Department stepped in. No, this isn’t QE all over again, and mortgage rates aren’t headed back to the 3s. Wishful thin...

It seems mortgage rates can’t catch a break lately. So maybe we need a Plan B.  Or rather, a Plan C! Have you ever heard of Inverse Cramer? Whenever Jim Cramer says something, the opposite tends to ha...

Perhaps this is just a psychological loss, but mortgage rates are now higher than they were a year ago. If you look at rates last August, they were below

At this point it seems abundantly clear. De-escalate and mortgage rates fall. Ratchet up the war talk and mortgage rates go up. The same seems to go for

Well, it looks like mortgage rates will continue to avoid the dreaded 7-handle. This time, thanks to a taco. Ultimately, the core driver of mortgage rates