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How Labor Day Weekend Can Impact Home Affordability

As we get closer to Labor Day, volume on Wall Street is dwindling as market players get a head start on their long weekend. Today could be a difficult day to shop for mortgage rates and that can impact home affordabilility.  Expect volatility.

This is because mortgage rates are based on the price of mortgage bonds and, on Wall Street, bonds trade a lot like stocks. There has to be a buyer and a seller at a specific price to make a deal. With so many traders on vacation today, though, there are fewer opportunities to match buyers and sellers.  This can cause mortgage prices rise or fall faster than on a 'normal' day, directly leading to mortgage rate volatility. Each 0.125% mortgage rate increase is an extra $96 cost per $100,000 borrowed on a principal + interest home loan. For a light-volume trading day, there is a lot of information for markets to digest:

By themselves, each of these points can move markets. Together, however -- and aided by Labor Day -- they can move markets a lot. Mortgage bond pricing is fluid, changing every minute of every day.  Today, those changes will be exaggerated and, as an example, in the first 30 minutes of trading, mortgage rate pricing swung from rate improvement to rate deterioration in a flash.

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