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Bond market reacts to inflation expectations and supply of new bonds, not the Fed’s policy rates. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 4.14% on Friday, after having dropped briefly below 4.0% on September 11 (closing at 4.01%). On Wednesday last week, during an algo-driven moment, it also dropped to 4.0%, from 4.05%, then jumped right back to …

Mortgage rates have barely budged after Monday with the day-over-day change failing to exceed 0.02% on any given day. But today’s budging happened to bring the average 30yr fixed rate to another 10-month low.  Lenders are in the mid 6% range for top tier scenarios. Economic data is one of the common influences for the bonds that underly rate movement. …