by Calculated Risk on 3/17/2021 09:00:00 PM

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for a increase to 715 thousand from 712 thousand last week.

• Also at 8:30 AM, the Philly Fed manufacturing survey for March. The consensus is for a reading of 24.5, up from 23.1.

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This graph from MortgageNewsDaily shows the average 30 year fixed rate mortgage rates over the last 10 years.

Mortgage rates at 3.40% are essentially back to the lows of 2012 and 2016.