Mortgage markets worsened last week as investors responded to a recovering global economy.
Despite briefly touching their lowest levels since May, mortgage rates ended the week dramatically higher.
It's the second straight week that rates soared on a Friday.
For several months, Wall Street has been in limbo; undecided whether the economy is truly showing signs of improvement. Negative news has tended to sink rates while positive news has tended to do the opposite.
Lately, investors have been in search of signals anywhere signals can be found. Last week -- sans hard-hitting economic data -- those signals came from the worlds' Central Banks.
Shortly after Australia raised its interest rates by one-quarter percent, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that........
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What's Ahead For Mortgage Rates This Week : October 13, 2009
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