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27 2025 September
Rates Tread Water but a Shutdown Looms Ahead
Rates Hold Steady Despite Key Data This week ended with mortgage rates slightly higher than they were at the end of last week. Despite an...
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20 2025 September
Fed Cuts Rates but Mortgage Rates Go Up – Why?
This week’s Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting saw the results that markets expected with a .25% Fed Funds Rate cut. Since the BLS jobs report came...
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13 2025 September
All Eyes on the Fed Meeting
The interest rate markets were relatively flat this week as the markets digest the recent rate-friendly labor reports and tame inflation reports. Rates are remaining...
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06 2025 September
Interest Rates Love Jobs Data
This was a holiday-shortened week with the Labor Day holiday closing markets on Monday. Despite the loss of a day, there wasn’t a loss of...
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30 2025 August
PCE Continues Rate Cut Expectations
PCE Inflation in Line with Forecasts Friday’s Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report for July came in as the market expected. The headline inflation showed a...
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23 2025 August
Powell Changes His Tune
Powell Signals Possible Rate Cuts Friday’s much-anticipated speech from Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell was the long-awaited signal that markets have been waiting for....
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16 2025 August
Rates Hold the Line
Mortgage Rates Hold Recent Lows After last week’s reality check with the Jobs report, mortgage rates improved and held their lows this week. There was...
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09 2025 August
Changes Happening at the BLS
BLS Leadership Shake-Up Raises Concerns After this commentary was published last week, breaking news came out announcing that the President had fired the head of...
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02 2025 August
Action-Packed Week
With a complete change from the prior two weeks, this week was full of important economic news that moved rates. We ended the week significantly...
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