Weekly jobless claims and existing home sales are on today's calendar. But many eyes will be on tomorrow's big inflation report.

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We're due several economic reports today. But the one most likely to change mortgage rates is the retail sales one.

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We're due three highly influential economic reports this week. And mortgage rates could react sharply to any of them.

The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage is 6.24% today, an increase of 0.01% since yesterday. The 15-year fixed mortgage rate ...