Mortgage rates finally break higher: What you should watch

Mortgage rates took their biggest leap in two months on Friday, thanks to a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year Treasury. It was only an eighth of a percentage point move, but enough to send stocks of the nation’s homebuilders, as well as anything else that touches housing, tumbling.

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