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Mortgage Rates Now Solidly Back Above 6%
According to our chart of MND’s mortgage rate index, 30yr fixed rates bottomed at 6.01% yesterday, but that’s because the chart logs the day’s latest entry. On Friday, until late in the day, the chart showed a rate of 5.99%. It was only after sev…