Mortgage-Bond Yields Fall to Low on Fed's Treasury-Buying Plan

Yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage securities that guide U.S. home-loan rates set record lows after the Federal Reserve said it would buy more U.S. government debt as its housing-bond holdings pay down.

Fannie Mae’s 30-year fixed-rate, current-coupon securities declined about 0.02 percentage point from yesterday to 3.43 percent as of 5 p.m. in New York, keeping pace with 10-year Treasuries after the Fed’s announcement, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s down from this year’s high of 4.67 percent on April 5, and surpasses previous lows reached several times this year, most recently at 3.45 percent on July 30.

Read more...