Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch
Mortgage rates rose fairly quickly on Friday, depending on the lender and the scenario. Bonds (which dictate mortgage rates and interest rates in general) weakened overnight on a variety of foreign and domestic data. While we can't necessarily be sure that one particular development was more responsible for the move than another, we can observe that most of the damage followed news of surprisingly strong credit growth in China. This could stand to reason given that China and Europe are central to the cautionary economic stance taken by the likes of the Fed. In general, uncertainty about the global economy would be associated with lower interest rates. Actually a downbeat economy is even better than an uncertain one! With Chinese GDP and several European metrics hitting long term lows in the...(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.
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