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Mortgage Rates Could Cross a Record Low
CNBC, Feb. 12, 2016–Olick, Diana
Mortgage rates are falling because investors are flooding the U.S. bond market. Mortgage rates follow the yield on bonds that loosely follow the 10-year Treasury. Investors are buying bonds as a safety play in a highly volatile and largely negative stock market.