Posted To: Mortgage Rate WatchMortgage rates fell today as the stock market sell-off remained in focus. Stocks and rates certainly don’t have a linear and predictable relationship, but when stocks move lower as quickly as they have over the past 2 days, rates tend to see at least some benefit. Even though yesterday’s stock sell-off was much worse, today was a better day for rates due to timing. Simply put, the mortgage market didn’t have quite enough time to adjust to the move in stocks before the close of business. Lenders who did change rates yesterday were somewhat conservative with those changes in the event stocks bounced back in a major way. When stocks failed to improve overnight, mortgage lenders passed along more of the improvements seen in the underlying bond market. The average lender is now offering rates that…(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.