What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – June 2, 2014
Last week's economic news was fairly quiet due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday and no scheduled news released on Wednesday.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – April 21, 2014
Last week's economic news supported the general outlook for moderate economic growth. Housing related news included the National Association of Home Builders / Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for April and Housing Starts for March.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 31, 2014
Last week's economic news includes several reports about housing markets.
The S&P Case-Shiller 10 and 20 city housing market indices, the FHFA House Price Index, New Home Sales and Pending Home sales reports suggest that the national housing market continues to grow, but at lower rates.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – March 3, 2014
Last week's economic news was mixed, with new home sales increasing and weekly jobless claims higher than expected.
Case-Shiller and FHFA home price reports reflected slower growth in home prices. Mortgage rates moved higher for the third consecutive week.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – February 24, 2014
Last weekâs economic data supported recent reports indicating that housing markets are slowing, The National Association of Home builders/Wells Fargo Home Builders Index (HBI) dropped by 10 points to a reading of 46 for February.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – February 18, 2014
Last week's economic news was dominated by the first address by the new Fed chairperson, Janet Yellen.
Tuesday's news included the Jobs Openings report for December 2013, which matched November's reading of 4.0 million jobs available.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – February 10, 2014
Last week's mortgage and housing-related reports began with Construction Spending for December, with a reading of 0.10 percent or a seasonally adjusted $930.5 billion.
December's reading fell short of an expected increase of 0.40 percent.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – February 03, 2014
Last week brought mixed news; while the Department of Commerce reported a dip in new home sales, mortgage rates also fell. The Federal Reserve's FOMC statement revealed that quantitative easing would be further reduced by an additional $10 billion monthly.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 27, 2014
Last week was an action-packed week for economic news, and all of it was packed into Thursday.
What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – January 20, 2014
Welcome news arrived last week as lower mortgage rates and a higher number of housing starts were reported. Other economic news was mixed.