Impressive Market Growth Despite the Decline in Mortgage Rates
This past week, the United States realized impressive market growth despite the decline in mortgage rates.
How the Service Sector Growth Fuels the Expanding Economy
This week’s story focused on how the service sector growth fuels the expanding economy, though mortgage weeks declined slightly.
Impressive Employment Gains & Manufacturing Sector
In this past week’s labor market reporting, the economy realized impressive employment gains and manufacturing sector strength. As a result, both exceeded expectations. In spite of this positivity, mortgage rates ended the week with little change. Impressive Employment Gains Analysts finally learned the latest on Employment in the report released Friday, April 2nd, 2021. To the surprise of many, the data displayed impressive employment gains. Overall, the United States economy gained 916,000 jobs. This result is far above the consensus forecast of 625,000. In addition, the prior month showed revised results to the addition of 156,000 jobs. In particular, the hospitality and construction sectors exhibited strength. This is fantastic news given that both the hospitality and construction industries suffered at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Impressive Employment Gains Lead to Unemployment Rate Decline Because of the impressive employment gains, the unemployment rate saw a decline. Thus, the unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% to 6.0%. This result matched expectations. On the other hand, the economy expressed a decline in average hourly earnings. Generally, economists consider average hourly earnings to be an indicator of wage growth. The average hourly earnings fell slightly from February, below the consensus for a modest increase. [...]
Home Sales Stumble with Low Housing Inventory This Year
After the previous bounce back, this past week saw home sales stumble. Meanwhile, mortgage rates also ended the week a little lower.
Mortgage Markets Had a Rough Week with New Virus
Mortgage markets had a rough week as investors pondered the appropriate yield levels for the current economic environment.
Tame Inflation Data After Volatile Week for Rates
Though it was a volatile week for mortgage markets, last week was also characterized by tame inflation data.
Powerful Job Gains Rising 2021 Mortgage Rates
Facilitated by powerful job gains, mortgage rates have been on an upward path this year, potentially influencing rising inflation. Stronger-than-expected economic data caused the trend to continue this week.
2021 Mortgage Rates Trajectory with New Monetary Policy
2021 mortgage rates trajectory continues their upward pace. Rates reached their highest levels in months, inspired by rising inflation.
Highest Mortgage Rates in Months After Spread of Virus
This week, the U.S. economy saw its highest mortgage rates in months. Characterized by extremely strong economic reports, impressive early 2021 retail sales kicked off the New Year.
January 2021 Inflation Stays Low While Fed Creates New Policies
January 2021 inflation remains low, capping off a relatively quiet week for mortgage-backed securities. Overall, investors are divided on the inflation outlook for later in the year.