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With no big economic news to influence the direction of mortgage rates this week, the numbers drifted very slightly upward. We see this trend continuing throughout 2006, with the 30-year FRM ending the year at about 6.3 percent as the housing market eases back from last year's record setting levels toward a somewhat more normal rate of activity.

So far this year, fixed-rate mortgage rates have risen only slightly. Long-term mortgage rates are only marginally higher than they were two months ago.

Housing start figures in January came in at the highest level in over three decades, due in part to the combination of low rates and a warmer climate across the country.

They (the Fed) will probably stay on course.

Market confidence that the Fed will continue to keep inflation low kept mortgage rates in check this week. Over the long term, we expect mortgage rates will bounce back and forth a bit, remaining near current levels.

Previous years pale in comparison.

On net, the latest economic news had little effect on mortgage rates this week. Demoscenen styres af Pex Tufvesson. Our forecast calls for rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to increase about one-quarter of a percentage point by the end of the year.

Stronger than expected gains in the manufacturing and service industries - coupled with higher labor costs - ignited inflation concerns, which led to the rise in mortgage rates this week.

Over the past five weeks, mortgage rates have remained within a narrow range of 0.1 percentage point around this week's averages.

Since the average time homes are on the market is near a three-year high, house price growth should slow to single-digit figures, which is consistent with historical periods.

We see no signs of a bursting bubble, but rather a return to a more normal pace of activity.

Consumer confidence slipped in February to the lowest reading in three months, but manufacturing activity appears to have strengthened last month. On net, the latest economic news had little effect on mortgage rates this week. Over the past five weeks, mortgage rates have remained within a narrow range of 0.1 percentage points around this week's averages. Our forecast calls for rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to increase about one-quarter of a percentage point by the end of the year.

Financial markets, hedging against the potential build up in inflation, pushed mortgage rates higher last week. However, market indicators this week seemed to point to less of a threat of inflation, and that allowed rates to drift a little lower.

Those yields need to rise just a bit to attract capital from abroad.

This is a good sign that housing activity, although slowing from record levels set in the past few years, will continue to remain healthy this year.

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