Interest rate spreads stayed low after Fed quit buying mortgage-backed securities (MBS)

I had a few posts mulling over the end of the Fed buying of mortgage-backed securities and whether it would cause mortgage interest rates to rise. See here, here and here.

They haven’t.

Here’s a good quick play-by-play from PMI about how interest rate spreads have fared since the end of the Feds program to buy mortgage-backed securities.

June 21, 2010 by Realtor John Wake

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