Mortgage Rates Slip Again In Still-Tense US Housing Market

If you're keeping track at home (or at "home," with scare quotes, if you're a renter), US mortgage rates just fell for a third consecutive week. At 6.67%, financing costs are now the lowest since late October. Recall that rates rose pretty much unabated in the weeks following the September FOMC meeting, causing consternation and more than a little confusion among legions of would-be American homeowners, who didn't realize the steady decline in rates leading into the first Fed cut was in part t