| Wednesday December 19, 2018 Mortgage Rate Watch - 4:26PM Mortgage Rates Drop After Fed "Raises Rates" Mortgage rates fell today even though the Fed "raised rates." What's up with that? There are all kinds of rates. Some are fixed. Some are adjustable. Some apply to longer-term debt ... MND NewsWire - 4:40PM After Extended Losses, Existing Homes Sales Improve for Second Month After a prolonged losing streak - existing home sales hadn't seen an increase since March - the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) announced a second consecutive uptick in ... MBS Commentary - 2:03PM Differences Between Previous and Current FOMC Statements Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September November indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been ... MND NewsWire - 11:27AM Fannie/Freddie "Reform" Discussion Heats Up Again The debate has opened again on the fate of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs). Ten plus years after the two were put in federal conservatorship at the start of the housing crisis ... Vendor Search and Tech Tools; Lender Mergers Continue; Global Slowdown Pushing U.S. Rates MBS Day Ahead: To Dove or Not To Dove... Mortgage Apps Slide Despite Lower Rates, Market Volatility to Blame? Latest Video More News from 'Around the Web' Bloomberg - 4:39PM Markets Revolt as Steadfast Powell Whistles Past Recent Sell-Off CNBC - 4:38PM Market fears Fed making policy mistake CNBC - 3:25PM Powell says Fed has arrived at the lower end of neutral rate range Reuters - 2:33PM Another technical tweak as Fed wrestles to control policy rate Reuters - 2:33PM Instant View: Fed raises U.S. rates, sees 'some further' hikes ahead Reuters - 2:33PM Fed lifts rates, now sees 'some further' hikes ahead CNBC - 1:43PM Here are the three big changes the stock market is hoping to see from the Fed Reuters - 11:59AM Fed expected to increase rates, may signal fewer hikes ahead Reuters - 10:37AM Congress to push stop-gap funding bill with no border wall money CNBC - 10:10AM Existing home sales unexpectedly rise in November Bloomberg - 8:33AM The Fed's IOER Experiment May Already Be Reaching Its Limits CNBC - 8:02AM Fed is about to make its most important announcement of the year. Here's what Wells Fargo predicts www.redfin.com - 8:01AM Redfin's 2019 Predictions: Housing market will be coolest we've seen in years, but homeownership will continue to rise | Today's Rates Average Mortgage Rates | 15 Yr. Fixed | 4.15% | 1.16 | -0.02 | | 30 Yr. Fixed | 4.78% | 1.15 | +0.01 |
| 30 Yr. Fixed | 4.96% | 0.49 | -0.01 | | 15 Yr. Fixed | 4.39% | 0.50 | +0.01 | | 30 Yr. Jumbo | 4.93% | 0.31 | +0.01 | | 30 Yr. FHA | 4.95% | 0.80 | +0.01 | | 5/1 ARM | 4.24% | 0.48 | +0.02 |
| 30 Yr. Fixed | 4.63% | 0.50 | -0.12 | | 15 Yr. Fixed | 4.07% | 0.50 | -0.14 | | 1 Yr. ARM | 2.68% | 0.20 | +0.01 | | 5/1 Yr. ARM | 4.04% | 0.30 | -0.03 | Current Mortgage Rates »* FHFA averages are updated monthly.
** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly. |
Secondary Markets | 30YR FNMA 3.0 | 97.06 | +0.31 | | 30YR FNMA 3.5 | 99.52 | +0.22 | | 30YR GNMA 3.0 | 98.08 | +0.31 | | 30YR GNMA 3.5 | 100.22 | +0.17 | | 15YR FNMA 3.0 | 99.39 | +0.23 | | 15YR FNMA 2.5 | 97.31 | +0.31 |
| 2 YR | 2.6459% | -0.0042 | | 5 YR | 2.6223% | -0.0321 | | 10 YR | 2.7584% | -0.0644 | | 30 YR | 2.9852% | -0.0895 | | Prices as of: 12/19/2018 4:58PM EST | Current MBS / Treasury Prices »MBS and Treasury data provided by Thomson Reuters.Mortgage News Daily and MBS Live! are exclusive re-distributors of Real Time Thomson Reuters Mortgage Information.Secondary Marketing Managers:
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