Mortgage Rate Winning Streak Continues

After topping out on May 21st, the average day for mortgage rates has been a good one.  This has been especially true since June 6th with our 30yr fixed index moving down almost 0.25% through this afternoon. Today’s gains contributed nicely with a drop of 0.07%.

Normally, we’d point to the economic release calendar to help explain this sort of momentum.  There were numerous reports out this morning and several of them could be viewed as helpful for rates.  But when rates move lower in response to economic data, we tend to see at least some semblance of weakness in the stock market–even if only briefly–and that was nowhere to be found. 

The implication is that the market is broadly shifting to expect a lower path for the Fed Funds Rate (something that would help…