Mortgage Rates 📢 April 14th, 2025

INTEREST RATES

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📉 Why Rates Didn’t Improve (Even as Stocks Dropped)

Even though the stock market had a rough week, mortgage rates didn’t improve—here’s why:

🔍 Investors aren’t rushing into bonds like they normally would when stocks fall. Janet Yellen noted that investors are starting to shun dollar-based assets, and that shift is keeping pressure on rates.

📉 Yields moved higher briefly and held there, despite weaker economic signals. A strong 10-year Treasury auction (with record foreign demand) helped stabilize things, but not enough to push rates meaningfully lower.

🧱 Bottom line: Rates stayed sticky because bond demand wasn’t strong enough to offset concerns about the weakening dollar and shifting global confidence in U.S. assets.