The CoreLogic Home Price Index Forecast suggests U.S. home prices will rise less than 5 percent this year, but if some 2018 mortgage rate forecasts pan out the mortgage payments homebuyers face could increase closer to 15 percent. 15% mortgage payment increase? That's gonna cut into renovation plans and dreams of a new truck in the driveway. But as I noted in my previous post; in December 2017 the Canada 10yr less 2yr metric, which is a measure of a recession threat, narrowed to only 32bps away from negative inversion where the 2 year yield would be greater than the 10 year. But the new U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell pitched their congress yesterday with: "recent data has strengthened his confidence on inflation." and The Fed's is planning on three rate hikes in 2018, but after the announcement yesterday futures traders reacted and began pricing in a 1/3 possibility of a fourth rate hike! Zoom zoom. Meanwhile the Bank of Canada is not so sure about it's course this year: Bank Of Canada To Take Cautious Path With Two More Hikes In 2018: Reuters Poll Today, February 28, 2018 the Canadian 10yr yield is ticking down as traders bet on higher prices not higher yields:  CLICK CHART TO ENLARGE Comments are closed.
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History, Charts & Curated Readings"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement; and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense Archives
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"History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome." Jane Austen spoken by Catherine Morland in 'Northanger Abbey'
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