Mortgage Rate Question

Someone please kindly help me to understand this:

There are two reasons mortgage rates haven’t responded more to the Fed’s rate cuts. One is that long-term Treasury yields, which are the benchmark for most mortgage rates, have risen recently, perhaps because of increased concern about inflation as the prices of oil and other commodities soar. The other is that the spread between mortgage rates and Treasury rates has widened as investors and banks become increasingly reluctant to make home loans.

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2 Responses to “Mortgage Rate Question”

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    jielin Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    btw, this comment is for the whole blog instead of this particular post.

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    jielin Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    Wow, it looks like there is so much information here. I even don’t know where to start.
    Are you trying to publish some newspaper? lol
    nice job!

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