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Mortgage rates and oil prices this week

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**Podcast:** HousingWire Daily

## Participants

- **Sarah Wheeler** (HousingWire)
- **Logan Mohtashami** (HousingWire)

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Welcome, everyone. My guest today is lead analyst Logan Mohtashami to talk about oil prices and mortgage rates this week. First, let me wrap up the top five trending articles on HousingWire.com today. First, we have Google expands real estate listing ads to all 50 states, a very big deal, followed by Logan's stories on purchase applications and on existing home sales. Then we have an exclusive interview with figures Michael Tannenbaum after their acquisition of Kiavi and CoStar Target's Zillow preview in a filing over the

MRED case. So much going on. So much going on. So much to talk about today. Bring us up to date because lots happening even this morning. It's Thursday morning when it comes to oil prices. And then we'll talk about how that is going to influence mortgage rates.

Okay, this is one of the most interesting weeks for myself as somebody that's watching oil in the bond market. It's the most interesting week of the conflict. And this is just more how the oil markets and bond yields are trading to news. So I woke up early in the morning, I saw one of the big oil people just completely lose it because he thought, why isn't oil over $100? And I thought to myself, and you know, I do these crazy Instagram videos, you know, and I had to, you know, I'm getting older, Sarah.

So when I do these things early in the morning, I got my eye patches on and you know, just try to, you know, try to make sense. But I wrote an article early in the morning to just give you my perspective, maybe from the mindset of a trader and not somebody that's watching the news or a pundit or somebody on Facebook or to that regard, that why isn't oil going much higher this week? And why isn't the bond yields going much higher? So early in the morning when I wrote the article, I was basically presenting

a case that this week was pretty crazy. We are attacking Iran every night, early in the morning, there was a lot of back and forth talks about, you know, we need to take over the islands and we need to take over the fields and the oil markets don't really react as much. And I always do these oil charts and I show people that we have never been able to go really above the previous high. We're kind of in a downtrend on oil prices.

And the 10 year yield this morning, right before we talked, you know, was 4.52% with two attacks on Iran, Iran shooting missiles, back and forth crazines...

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