GENWORTH MORTGAGE INSURANCE FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER …

behind the recent run-up of interest rates. And we think it will create uncertainty in the housing market in the near term. Between September 2017 and early February 2018, mortgage interest rates have jumped by 50 basis points. It is worth watching because, in the last major run-up in interest rates between April and September 2013 (with about twice the increase), the growth of the first-time homebuyer market … ................
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