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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 27th, 2025

May 27, 2025 by Robby Oakes

Despite the recent pause on tariffs for Europe and progressing talks with China, the economic outlook remains largely negative across all sectors and markets. Although this week was relatively light on economic reports, the most notable was the Leading Economic Indicators, which showed a significant decline in every measurable category for April. This decline is largely attributed to the tariff policies implemented recently. Overall, the outlook remains pessimistic, despite other markets showing a more favorable reaction to the recent pauses on tariffs.

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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 19th, 2025

May 19, 2025 by Robby Oakes

The latest inflation data has been released, offering insight into the near-term impact of the recent tariff measures. The results indicate that despite deflationary pressure on the economy, inflation continues to trend upward with the recent, ongoing tariff wars.

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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 12th, 2025

May 12, 2025 by Robby Oakes

Over the weekend, the recent talks with China and the U.S. about the recent tariffs have been said to be making progress recently in Geneva, leading to restoring some stability across all sectors and markets. The prior week, the FOMC decided not to change the rates and that will likely be the case in the foreseeable future. While having less presence due to the current economic climate, this week’s CPI and PPI inflation data releases remain as important as ever. These reports will offer insight into the recent impact of the trade war and help inform expectations for the near-term economic outlook.

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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – May 5th, 2025

May 5, 2025 by Robby Oakes

Last week featured a slew of releases, but the most important one as of this writing is the GDP estimates. Both the GDP and GDP deflator data have started to reverse their previous trends, raising serious concerns that the economy may be experiencing deflationary effects.

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What’s Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week – April 28th, 2025

April 28, 2025 by Robby Oakes

While many useful indicators are set to be released this week, the previous week left us only with the Leading Economic Indicators, which showed signs of the economy slowing down in the future. Consumer Sentiment reports also indicated widespread dissatisfaction across all levels of income and education, largely due to the impacts of recent tariff decisions, which have been on hold.

Filed Under: Financial Reports Tagged With: Financial Report, Jobless Claims, Mortgage Rates

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