The federal funds rate and mortgage interest rates are often expected to move together, but they haven’t lately. Here’s why.

During the 2020 pandemic, for example, the Fed's purchases of mortgage-backed securities helped drive mortgage rates to historic lows. But when the Fed raises rates to combat inflation ...

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The Federal Reserve terminated two mortgage-related enforcement actions against Wells Fargo & Co. from more than a decade ago ...

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or mortgage-related securities backed by these loans; and loans that are insured by Federal Housing Administration, loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Rural Development ...

The Federal Reserve ... mortgage market also plays a crucial role in determining mortgage rates. Most mortgages are eventually sold to investors through this market, and the pricing of mortgage ...

Perhaps finance companies and dealerships can take solace in the seven-word sentence Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said ...

Ackman noted in his post on X (formerly known as Twitter) that his hedge fund has owned Federal National ... activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other ...

The impact? Less money available for banks to lend out as mortgages. “If the Fed buys less mortgage backed securities, on net, you’ll have less downside pressure,” says Jeffrey Roach ...