Strong job numbers spark fears that the Fed will need to stick to its guns and continue to raise rates and keep them elevated for some time to fight inflation
Mortgage investors have been demanding higher yields because of fears of prepayment risk if the loans they're funding now are refinanced when rates fall
Without adjustment for seasonal factors, demand for both purchase loans and refinancing remains at their lowest levels since 2000, according to MBA lender survey
Rising demand for purchase loans and refinancing as rates climb to new highs underscores volatility, with Fed expected to continue rate hikes, according to the MBA's latest survey
High mortgage rates, challenging affordability and a gloomier economic outlook are keeping buyers on the sidelines, Mortgage Bankers Association forecaster Joel Kan said
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell hinted Wednesday that the US central bank is looking to dial back the pace of interest rate hikes as soon as the impact of increases shows up in inflation data
Aggregate demand for mortgages, both purchase and refinancing, at lowest level since December 2018, as bottom falls out of refinancing market
Mortgage rates may level off despite the biggest short-term interest rate hike in 20 years thanks to the certainty the Fed is providing about its plans to shrink its nearly $9 trillion balance sheet
Although the Fed hasn't set a timetable for shrinking its balance sheet, it's likely to do so more quickly than it did after the 2007-09 recession
What the international banking scene means for interest rates in the U.S.
The IMF (International Monetary Fund) is also an attending physician and today very much out of character, issuing warning after warning
By spring or summer, we may look back at January as the Great 2016 Head-Fake
Germany, Norway and the UK are considered riskiest because of ultralow interest rates and bond yields
Long-term rates went up, and mortgage and bond yields jumped
Markets fear Fed tightening in the face of flat wage growth, falling inflation