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Mortgage Rates Hangin' Tough Despite Stock Market Recovery

Posted To: Mortgage Rate Watch

Mortgage rates have primarily been at the whim of the general tone of coronavirus news for the past few weeks. That meant a swift move to multi-year lows followed by an uneven correction back toward higher levels. But the correction has been anything but threatening, and it stands in stark contrast to a much sharper correction seen in the stock market (i.e. stocks quickly got over coronavirus fears and returned to all-time highs). Why are rates able to hang tough at levels that are still quite close to long-term lows while other parts of the market seem to have moved on? Although the US stock market has moved on to some extent, Asian equities markets have not. They are pricing in the global economic impact that will ultimately be seen due to coronavirus. Granted, that impact may not be huge...(read more)