Initial Weekly Jobless Claims meet expectations

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Published Date 8/29/2024

Today's Mortgage Rate Summary

How Rates Move:

Conventional and Government (FHA and VA) lenders set their rates based on the pricing of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) which are traded in real time, all day in the bond market. This means rates or loan fees (mortgage pricing) moves throughout the day, being affected by a variety of economic or political events. When MBS pricing goes up, mortgage rates or pricing generally goes down. When they fall, mortgage pricing goes up.

Rates Currently Trending: Neutral

Mortgage rates are moving sideways today. The MBS market worsened by -6 bps yesterday. This was not enough to increase mortgage rates or fees. The market experienced low volatility yesterday.

Today's Rate Forecast: Neutral

Housing: We will get July's Pending Home Sales Index at 10 am ET.

Jobs: Initial Weekly Jobless Claims were 231K versus estimates of 232K. The 4 week moving average moved lower to 231K. Continuing Claims were a little lower than expected at 1.868M versus estimates of 1.870M.

GDP: The 2nd QTR GDP was revised upward from 2.8% to 3.0%. The GDP Price Index was also moved upward from 2.3% to 2.5%.

The Fed: Atlanta Fed President Bostic today.

Treasury Auction: We have the 7 year note auction at 1 pm.

Today's Potential Rate Volatility: Low

This morning markets are moving sideways. Volatility has started low as markets wait for tomorrow's PCE data.

Bottom Line:

If you are looking for the risks and benefits of locking your interest rate in today or floating your loan rate, contact your mortgage professional to discuss it with them.

Source: TBWS

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