On average, today’s top-tier 30 year fixed mortgage rates are exactly the same as yesterday’s. Rates are driven by the bond market and bonds continue waiting for bigger developments in the Iran war. At the moment, the market is in a sort of limbo as time remains on the 2-week ceasefire. In the meantime, there’s a multitude of lower consequence war-related headlines on any given day. These have caused a bit of back and forth volatility in bonds, but not enough directional movement to nudge rates very far in either direction since Tuesday.
Trump Administration Releases Second Avenue Subway Funding
The Trump administration has finally released seven months’ worth of withheld funding to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) after a pending court battle. Janno Lieber, the state transit agency’s chairman, announced that work on Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway extension would now continue as planned. In October, President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation…
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