[HN Gopher] Mortgage rates drop fast after a shock jobs report s...
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Mortgage rates drop fast after a shock jobs report sets off a
series of dominoes
Author : MilnerRoute
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-11-04 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (finance.yahoo.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (finance.yahoo.com)
| quantified wrote:
| > In our upside-down economy, where good news for ordinary people
| means bad news for financial markets, worries about an overheated
| labor market pushed 10-year Treasury yields to their highest
| level in 16 years in October.
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| Financiers make money off the delta between what's paid to
| workers and what accrues to owners. Economic health should not be
| conflated with investor happiness. Sometimes they align but it's
| unfortunately us-vs-them between capital and labor.
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