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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Why mortgage rates are soaring - What They Never Told You

Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals

There's a funding problem brewing in the housing finance market, and it's sending mortgage rates up at a much faster clip than benchmark Treasuries.

The big picture: Large buyers of mortgage bonds — i.e. the Fed and the big banks — have dropped out of the game. The lower demand has pressured the value (or price) of mortgage bonds, sending yields soaring.

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