Mortgage rates dip to lowest level of 2025, lifting hopes for spring home-buying season

• Hopes for more Fed rate cuts dim as Powell notes hot CPI means 'we're not quite there yet'

  A Fed interest rate cut won't be coming until at least September, if at all this year, following a troubling inflation report Wednesday.
  
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  Some mortgage rates cut below 4% as competition picks up

  It's the first time mortgage deals with rates below 4% have been available since November.
  
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  New UK property listings bounce back as mortgage rates fall

  Bank of England interest rate cuts boost residential market activity, say estate agents
  
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• Mortgage refinance demand jumps to highest level since October, but homebuyers pull back again

  Applications to refinance a home loan jumped 10% compared with the previous week and were 33% higher than the same week one year ago.
  
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• Will mortgage interest rates fall in February without a Fed meeting? Experts weigh in

  Mortgage rates could fall, experts say, but it depends on several factors. Here's what to know.
  
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  MLB Power Rankings: Dodgers at No. 1 to start 2025, plus what we're looking forward to as hope springs eternal

  The Super Bowl is over and spring training arrives this week
  
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• Spring training 2025: Schedule, highlights, updates and more

  We have everything you need to know as players begin to report to camps, including key dates.
  
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  Splat’s entertainment: I watched Rotten Tomatoes’ 40 lowest-rated films to find out which was worst

  Our brave victim writer sits through the film site’s 0%ers to see what makes a bad movie. Will she emerge with her sanity intact – and are all these flops really so bad?. I have seen horrors so ...
  
  The Guardian - 5d

• Trump, and home buyers, could get their wish for lower mortgage rates — if markets cooperate

  The president’s focus on the 10-year Treasury yield is part of Trump’s efforts to bring down mortgage rates, a promise during his campaign.
  
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  “Tail risk” — uncertainty over inflation, tariffs, political chaos and other unknowns — could trigger a chaotic market downturn.
  
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  “My boyfriend stays at my house 80% of the time. I don’t even know how much he makes.”
  
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• How Elon Musk’s ‘DOGE’ playbook could trigger a bear market for stocks

  Big cuts in the federal deficit will almost certainly lead to a large reduction in corporate profits.
  
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• Five things we’ve learned this week about inflation — and why it’s so hard to kill the beast

  Fed effort to restore price sanity suffers setbacks.
  
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• Trump unveils plan for reciprocal tariffs. Investors are relieved they’re not immediate.

  President Donald Trump unveiled a plan Thursday that could lead to new reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
  
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