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You Keep Waiting for Rates to Drop. Here Is the Number That Is Actually Driving Them.
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If you are waiting for a big mortgage-rate drop before you buy, there is one number underneath the headlines you need to understand: the spread between the 10-year Treasury yield and mortgage rates.
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