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Mortgage Rates Recover All of Yesterday's Losses

May 20, 2026 · 6:58 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

Wednesday brought some much-needed relief for the mortgage market after rates surged to new 9 month highs of 6.75% yesterday. Whereas that rate spike was…

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Mortgage Rates Jump Again, Now up 0.75% Since Start of The War

May 19, 2026 · 7:28 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

It was another rough day for the bond market and, thus, for interest rates. Investors aggressively sold bonds in the first 2 hours of trading, taking 10yr…

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Mortgage Rates Start Week at New 9 Month High, But Just Barely

May 18, 2026 · 7:34 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

Mortgage rates hit their highest levels in more than 9 months at the end of last week. Now today, they've edged slightly higher yet again with the average…

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Mortgage Rates Surge Toward 8-Month Highs

May 15, 2026 · 4:40 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

Mortgage rates are driven by bonds and the bond market hoped to see more evidence of shift toward peace during the 2-day Trump/Xi meeting in China. As soon…

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Mortgage Rates Move Moderately Lower

May 14, 2026 · 7:20 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

May continues to be a more volatile month than the bulk of April when it comes to day over day mortgage rate movement. While the average day has seen that…

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Mortgage Rates Officially at 6 Week Highs

May 13, 2026 · 6:58 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

Mortgage rates rose somewhat sharply yesterday to match the highest level since March 27th. They're just a hair higher today, thus officially at 6-week…

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Mortgage Rates Match Highest Level Since March

May 12, 2026 · 7:28 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

When the Iran war was in its initial escalation phase, the initial surge in markets took the top-tier 30yr fixed rate to 6.64% for the average lender by…

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Mortgage Rates Rising to Start New Week

May 11, 2026 · 7:30 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

Last week was decidedly stronger for mortgage rates as they either held steady or moved lower on 5 out of 5 days. All told, it was a 0.14% drop from the…

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Mortgage Rates End Week Slightly Lower

May 8, 2026 · 05:52 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

It ended up being a decent round trip for rates this week. Monday kicked things off with a jump to the highest level in more than a month, and the third…

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Mortgage Rates Erase Early Improvement

May 7, 2026 · 06:46 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

The day began on a fairly hopeful note for the mortgage market. During overnight trading hours, the bond market improved following a report regarding a…

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