Mortgage Report: What is a Yield Curve? How Does it Influence Mortgage Rates?

It’s the 70th episode of the Mortgage Report! This week, Bob Johnson (AKA BobMortgage) reports on some big news and rumblings in the market, specifically related to yield curves. What’s a yield curve? How does a yield curve indicate the overall health of the market? Our most-trusted mortgage expert and the senior mortgage adviser at the nation’s oldest private lender, Wallick & Volk, explains. 

Additonally, Bob breaks down news from US Fed chair Jerome Powell’s speech from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last week along with news on home sales and jobless claims and how all of this combined shapes his lock or float position. Educating buyers on how mortgages work is what BobMortgage does best, and you won’t want to miss this week’s report. Want to keep track of our constantly changing market? Be sure to follow BobMortgage on Instagram, too!

And now for the 70th episode of the Mortgage Report with BobMortgage: