(Finance) – The mortgage applications in the United States. In the week to May 24, the index measuring the volume of mortgage loan applications recorded a decrease of 5.7%, after +1.9% in the previous week.
The index relating to requests for refinancing fell by 13.6%, while that relating to new questions recorded a decrease of 1.1%.
This was announced by the Mortgage Bankers Associations (MBA), indicating that i rates on thirty-year mortgages they rose to 7.05% from 7.01% the previous week.