{"id":82176,"date":"2025-09-11T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=82176"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:53:37","slug":"mortgage-rates-to-fall-as-jobless-claims-jump-and-inflation-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/mortgage-rates-to-fall-as-jobless-claims-jump-and-inflation-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates To Fall a Bit More Today as Jobless Claims Jump and Inflation Posts Steady Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Takeaway: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mortgage rates will ease a little bit more today as a jump in unemployment insurance <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> overshadows a CPI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inflation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> report showing an expected increase in inflation, nudging higher the odds of more rate cuts from the Fed in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Inflation is growing, especially in tariff-sensitive sectors, but the increase is gradual enough that the Fed will continue to ignore it on the assumption that monetary policy need not respond.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Core prices (excluding the volatile food and energy categories) increased by 3.1% year-over-year in August, up from the low of 2.8% reached in March. On a monthly basis, core prices increased 0.346%, the highest increase since January.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similar to the last few months, there is evidence that tariffs are showing up in consumer prices. Both apparel and (0.5% month-over-month) and used vehicles (1.0% month-over-month) popped up. Overall, all core goods prices grew 0.3% month-over-month, the highest growth rate this year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the services side, the key shelter categories of rent of primary residence and owners\u2019 equivalent rent (OER) were a little firmer than expected with OER ticking up to 0.4% month-over-month. While market<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/rental-tracker-august-2025\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have ticked up recently, it\u2019s much too soon for that to trickle into the CPI numbers, so this may just be statistical noise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday\u2019s headline and core (excluding food and energy)\u00a0 numbers were unexpectedly negative, but the underlying fundamentals were even worse. The components of the Producer Price Index (PPI) that flow through to core PCE (the Fed\u2019s preferred inflation gauge) were much higher than the other components that pushed the topline numbers down. Still, forecasts for core PCE remained unchanged after that data release.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Unemployment insurance data released at the same time reinforces the flood of recent data pointing to a potential labor market recession.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unemployment insurance<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> jumped from 236,000 last week to 263,000 this week, the highest since Oct 23, 2021. Meanwhile, the number of people continuing to stay on unemployment insurance (as opposed to being able to find a job) has been sneakily increasing all year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s release is piling on the sudden torrent of labor market data suddenly flashing red. Importantly, the change today is that employers may also be increasingly letting people go in addition to just not hiring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, we must note that much of this recent data is very likely overstating the weakness of the labor market.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s jobless claims data could be especially noisy as it contains the difficult-to-adjust-for Labor Day holiday last week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly the August jobs report released last Friday is likely to be<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/mortgage-rates-to-fall-to-the-lowest-level-since-october\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revised<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> higher in coming months as the August report has historically been biased downwards to the tune of 60,000 jobs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday\u2019s benchmark revision of payroll growth from April 2024 to March 2025 by almost a million jobs is also likely to be much<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/weekly-economics-update-september-8\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">too large<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the QCEW data underlying the revision has itself been revising upwards.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The labor market data is also harder to interpret in light of the huge reduction in immigration (reducing labor supply), but it\u2019s difficult to dispute that the Fed should be concerned about the labor market.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Calls for a 50 bps cut next Wednesday and\/or more cuts in coming months will grow a little louder, but the Fed will remain cautious and data-driven, sticking to a 25 bps cut at the next meeting and keeping their options on the table.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With bond markets pricing in slightly more than a 25 bps cut next Wednesday as well as two more cuts at the October and December meetings, mortgage rates could rise if the Fed fails to meet the market\u2019s expectations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeaway: Mortgage rates will ease a little bit more today as a jump in unemployment insurance claims overshadows a CPI inflation report showing an expected increase in inflation, nudging higher the odds of more rate cuts from the Fed in the coming months. 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