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To: Les H who wrote (44404)	12/7/2024 10:17:55 AM
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Everybody Should Get Used to these Mortgage Rates, Says Fannie Mae CEO: Mortgage Rates, 10-Year Treasury Yields, QT, and Spreadsby Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2024 • 54 Comments “Current mortgage rates and Fannie Mae’s forecast for 2025 rates are well in line with rates over the past several decades.” wolfstreet.com Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$98 Billion in November, -$2.07 Trillion from Peak, to $6.90 Trillion, Lowest since May 2020by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2024 • 57 Comments Quantitative Tightening shed 43% of the assets the Fed had added during pandemic QE. Bank-panic facility BTFP is vanishing. wolfstreet.com It's been offset over the short- and long-run by the decline in the funds parked at the Fed's RRPF. Notice the simultaneous decline in the yield on the 10 yr note and rise in the S&P 500 FAANG index since the 3rd wk of November. The RRPF may run out of funds by the end of the year or by the time the new administration takes over.