Mortgage Rates End Week Unchanged. Next Week, Probably Not...

It's no great secret that the outgoing week didn't offer much in terms of hotly anticipated events with the power to make or break momentum in the rate market.  But as it happened, there was ultimately no impact whatsoever by the time Friday afternoon rolled around.  Actually, rates were already 'unchanged' on the week as of yesterday afternoon.  Friday just happened to be unchanged as well. In terms of the bond market movement underlying the mortgage rate stability, we got some help from headlines regarding the improvement in relations between the Trump admin and Fed Chair Powell.  After touring the Fed's construction site, the President said these sorts of cost overruns happen and he doesn't want to put them in the category of "grounds for removal," nor is there any pressure for Powe