Posted To: Mortgage Rate WatchMortgage rates held relatively steady today, finally leveling off after two solid days of improvement driven by the week’s big stock market sell-off. Stocks and rates don’t always move in the same direction at the same time, but when stocks make a big move lower, rates tend to benefit. This week’s move lower in stocks was the 3rd largest since the financial crisis. In that light, we only saw a mere token of improvement for mortgage rates, but we’ll take what we can get considering it was the only meaningful drop in rates since August 10th. For most of the day, it looked like stocks might head back down, but they recovered in the afternoon. That put an end to the hopes of any more improvement in mortgage rates for this week. Underlying bond markets were quick to follow stocks back in the other…(read more)Forward this article via email: Send a copy of this story to someone you know that may want to read it.