By Matthew Graham | Mortgage News Daily
Mortgage rates moved quickly higher after today’s Fed Announcement. While the Fed was, by no means, expected to hike rates in October, there was a risk that the statement would introduce some verbiage that opened the door for a rate hike in December.
Those of us that saw this verbiage change as a possibility figured it would be a clear warning about where the Fed’s collective minds were. Reason being: the recent economic data hasn’t really justified any acceleration in the rate hike timeline, so if the Fed STILL insisted on alluding to a December hike, we’d know they were fairly serious about it.