Mortgage Rates Begin April Near 2-Month Lows
Mortgage rates moved lower today as underlying bond markets generally followed a much bigger move in stocks. It's a common misconception that stocks and bond yields ("rates," for all intents and purposes) follow one another. They certainly CAN move in the same direction at the same time during certain times of the day, but it's not the sort of correlation to count on. That said, the stock/bond relationship was certainly a factor today. The only catch was that it took quite