With little to suggest that the U.S.-Iran conflict will end soon — and with crude-oil prices rising to more than $100 per barrel — mortgage rates took a beating in the past week as Treasury yields rose to their highest point since last July. Mortgage News Daily (MND) reported that 30-year fixed rates averaged 6.49% […]
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March 2026 continues to be an unpleasant month for mortgage rates–a fact almost exclusively due to the Iran war. Even if the war were to end today, there’s been sufficient disruption to infrastructure and a big enough initial spike in energy prices to create what economists refer to as “second round effects.” In simpler terms,
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The US Supreme Court in Washington.Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg The United States’ high court turned down a case involving a former biweekly mortgage-payment services firm that has been fighting a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau penalty for a decade. Processing Content The Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal from Nationwide Biweekly Administration, which has battled
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