BERNANKE’S COMMENTS CAUSE INTEREST RATES TO HEAD EVEN HIGHER
May 27th, 2013
On Wednesday, Bernanke publicly testified to the Joint Economic Committee that the Fed could ease it’s monetary assistance with the bond market in the next 3 to 4 FOMC meetings. These simple comments caused one of the largest one day rate hikes I have ever seen.
The Mortgage Backed security market closed Wednesday trading down – 98 bps and closed the week trading down -86 bps. I have warned about this in past updates. When the FED leaves the mortgage backed security market, rates will rise quickly. The FED indicating they may do so soon causes the same reaction.
This continues the terrible month of May for interest rates. There is panic selling in the Mortgage Backed Security market and investors are cutting their losses. Expect high volatility moving forward.
The May unemployment report coming out next Friday could fuel interest rates to rise even more or help them pull down a little bit. Either way, if the FED is indicating they will leave the MBS market, you won’t see rates hit the previous lows may have become accustomed to.
Make it a great week!!
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TODAY’S RATES:
30 year fixed: 3.75% paying .36 points, 3.875% paying 0 points, 4% – $0 costs
20 year fixed: 3.5% paying .99 points, 3.75% paying 0 points, 3.875% – $0 costs
15 year fixed: 2.875% paying .74 points, 3% paying 0 points, 3.25% – $0 costs
5/1 ARM: 2.25% paying .76 points, 2.5% paying 0 points, 2.75% – $0 costs
7/1 ARM: 2.5% paying .89 points, 2.75% paying 0 points, 3%- $0 costs
30 year fixed High Balance Loan: 3.875% paying .81 points, 4.125% paying 0 points, 4.25% – $0 costs
30 year fixed FHA: 3.25% paying .37 points, 3.375% paying 0 points, 3.5% – $0 costs
15 year fixed FHA: 2.75% paying .89 points, 3% paying 0 points, 3.25% – $0 costs
30 year fixed VA: 3.25% paying .28 points, 3.375% paying 0 points, 3.625%- $0 costs
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BERNANKE’S COMMENTS CAUSE INTEREST RATES TO HEAD EVEN HIGHER
