After reaching a peak of 7.04% in January 2025, mortgage rates retreated to the mid-6% range in March but then reversed ...

Thursday's Bureau of Labor Statistics job report showed slightly lower unemployment in June (4.1% compared to 4.2% in May) ...

Interest rate forecast 2026. Economists anticipate interest rates will drift lower at a slower pace in 2026. The FOMC projects fed funds rates of 2.9% at year-end 2026 and 2027.

Hunter Housing Economics is a little on the higher end, with the research firm predicting that the 30-year fixed mortgage rate will average 6.6% in 2025 and 6.5% in 2026.. Housing economist Brad ...

The stock market is down sharply today after the Federal Reserve forecast fewer interest rate cuts in 2025 than expected. Latest U.S.

And since mortgage rates drive so much of the U.S. housing market, I thought I’d collect the best thinking here. We recently released the HousingWire Housing Market 2025 Forecast .

Mathematicians develop AI to forecast market interest rates. Story by Science X staff ... In simple terms, the market interest rate is the cost of borrowing money or the reward for saving it.

Housing Market Forecast 2025-26: Interest Rates Keep Construction Flat. Mar. 07, 2025 11:45 PM ET ITB, XHB, NAIL, ... However, interest rate forecasts cannot be taken as gospel.

Forget 2023 and interest-rate increases. When the Federal Reserve releases its latest interest-rate forecasts on Wednesday afternoon, many investors will be focused on how much officials expect to ...

The HousingWire forecast for mortgage rates in 2025 is a range between 5.75% and 7.25%.. Some observers scoff at the wide 150 basis point range in our expectations for the year, as though it’s a ...

Market Extra Stock market to face reality check when Fed updates its interest-rate forecasts How the ‘dot plot’ changes — and how Fed Chair Jerome Powell addresses those changes — will be ...

Inflation has tumbled from its peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3.7% on the back of the Fed’s rate hikes. Yet the unemployment rate, at a still-low 3.8%, has scarcely budged.