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Three Things to Know: We Have So Many Questions

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / September 26, 2022 /

By Ryan Casey Stephens,  FPQP®Special Contributor The events of the second half of last week left mortgage lenders nationwide in a state of shock. Experts were almost unanimous in the hope we’d see lower mortgage rates this week following another Fed rate hike, but we received quite the opposite. In the span of two days,…

Mortgage Report: Inflation Remains Stable, But Fed Comments Influence Bond Market

By Joanna England / October 1, 2018 /

As our most-trusted mortgage expert told us in last week’s Mortgage Report, there was news on the way that could definitely influence the bond market. Those indicators were the PCE, one of the Fed’s favorite measures of inflation, and of course Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comments.  As expected, the bond market had a bit of…

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

By Joanna England / August 27, 2018 /

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…