Mortgage rates ticked up again, for the 3rd Straight week. With focus again on inflation, Federal Reserve unwinding of their bond purchase and slower retail sales. This week we will have lots of housing data coming in as well as more tariffs. Probably another bad week for bonds and mortgage rates.
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We started last week with a nice improvement with Rates, then things cooled off in Turkey and we gave most of the improvement back, managed to squeak out a slight rate improvement. Over the weekend Turkey's bonds got cut to Junk status, thus putting EU banks in a little trouble. Money is moving from EU to the US and will keep our rates improving. Trump Tweets off the table, rates are all about Turkey now, and watch out for news from Italy...again, which might improve our rates also.

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* Turkey & Mortgage Rates
* Bad Loan Approval Letters
* Recasting a Loan
* Appraisal Waivers

Mortgage rates are trending lower as traders are still trying to digest Friday's Job Numbers.  Was it low because business are not hiring or was it low because there are no workers.  I am of opinion of the latter, the US is at full employment, and thus wages are going to have to increase, thus inflation, and inflation is bad for Rates.  Today, we have Trump Tweeting about various items which is causing rates to decrease.  I am pretty cautious this week, as rates are in a position to break out and increase, but watch out on Trade Tweets.  Special note, we do get CPI or Consumer Price Index, which is gauge on inflation, all eyes will be focused on this report this week.

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Rates pretty flat last week, but today we are seeing a significant worsening as inflation and retail sales. We are still Trading in a narrow range, but with more inflation news on the horizon we are anticipating rates continue to rise this week.

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• FHA News about Mortgage insurance
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• Mortgage rates
• Social Median Postings

Rates traded in a very narrow channel last week, with them overall improving just slightly. This was mainly due to Trump and Trade. This week it will again be about Trade and Trump's Tweets. Economic reports this week mainly focus on Housing with Starts, Permits and Existing Home Sales.

With Spain and Italy cooling off, and the threat of higher tariffs, inflation is back in the news. Traders are looking towards more economic reports this week to guage inflation again. We are seeing rates trend back up, but this could all change with 1 tweet.

WOW, mortgage rates improved over the last few days, fueled by the major drop in Oil, and our old friend Italy is back in the news with a collapsing economy, which has the potential of taking down the EU. And then Trade Wars are back, with the US threatening 25% tariffs on electronics made in China. And lets not forget Israel & Iran trading shots. All of these items and pushing traders into bonds, which will drive down mortgage rates.