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Mortgage Rates Pass 7% for First Time in 2024

Mortgage rates climbed above 7% for the first time this year as traders re-evaluated the odds for interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 7.1%, according to Freddie Mac It was the highest rate since late November, and the sharpest week-over-week increase since early June. Home prices kept rising in March, the National Association of Realtors said earlier this morning, adding to the difficulty of finding an affordable home.

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/a057fc09-5d77-3694-b5dc-9dad9f6732d2/mortgage-rates-pass-7-for.html

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Mortgage rates climbed above 7% for the first time this year as traders re-evaluated the odds for interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 7.1%, according to Freddie Mac It was the highest rate since late November, and the sharpest week-over-week increase since early June

But the Fed Experts on PatNet said...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/feds-bostic-open-rate-hike-if-inflation-progress-stalls-2024-04-18/

Fed's Bostic: open to a rate hike if inflation progress stalls

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Mortgage rates climbed above 7% for the first time this year as traders re-evaluated the odds for interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate this week was 7.1%, according to Freddie Mac It was the highest rate since late November, and the sharpest week-over-week increase since early June

But the Fed Experts on PatNet said...

But the Fed Experts on PatNet three years ago said...

zzyzzx says

https://wolfstreet.com/2024/05/01/fed-holds-rates-at-5-50-top-of-range-qt-slowdown-starts-in-june-acknowledged-inflation-is-a-problem-again/

But the Rate Cut Geniuses on PatNet said...


https://wolfstreet.com/2024/05/01/oh-deary-where-did-my-rate-cuts-go-feds-wait-and-see-now-entrenched-and-suddenly-lots-of-talk-about-rate-hikes/

From what I could decipher from the 60 Minute interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, the Fed will lower rates when the CPI's and PCE's 6 month average for annual inflation are below 3%.

AD says

From what I could decipher from the 60 Minute interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, the Fed will lower rates when the CPI's and PCE's 6 month average for annual inflation are below 3%.

Their mandate is 2% average inflation. Emphasis on average.