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Stuck on the Up Elevator-and We Can't Get Off

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MORTGAGE INTEREST RATE LOCK ADVISORY
July 22, 2013  :2:00 PM PST 
 
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7 Day Mortgage Interest Rate lock or Float Advice: FLOAT With Caution

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Stuck on the Up Elevator-and We Can't Get Off 
Interest Rate ElevatorBy Robert Zimmer - WE'RE HEARING that the change in interest rates from ever-decreasing to something else-two weeks ago, we learned that weekly mortgage rates jumped the most in a week since 1987-is a short-term phenomenon, but also a long-term one. Washington doesn't recognize yet what this will mean, since most policymakers have never functioned in anything but a declining-rate environment.

How long have rates been falling? A very long time. Thirty-year-fixed mortgage rates have been falling consistently since 1982. Interest rates in general, benchmarked off prime rates, have been coming down since late 1980. Read More National Mortgage News