Will Wells Fargo Profit with Higher Rates?

There is little doubt that mortgage rates are going to start trending higher with the 10 year treasury yield.  The yield has been in an uptrend since the beginning of the year and it is only time before it starts to bring mortgage rates with it.  At the current yield of 3.7% history states that mortgage rates should be around 5.6%.  If this is the case, will many of the current home buyers in the the market lose interest?

President Obama has set out to get home buyers interested in real estate again by making it dirt cheap to borrow money.  In the past three months mortgage rates were very close to historic lows which should have sparked interest in most housing markets.  Unfortunately this has not been the case based on the data that has been produced.  If low mortgage rates did not get home buyers interested then it will be very interesting to see what happens if mortgage rates do in fact go back up.

Wells Fargo has been the best financial institution through the entire mortgage crisis but they make money when they are funding mortgages.  Now that the housing market has totally fallen apart and the economy seems to be worsening will they continue to be able to produce a profit.  Wells Fargo makes money in other areas besides the mortgage market, but that is a big chunk of their overall business plan.  They will gobble up all the Wachovia mortgages but many of those were subprime that were likely going to default.  It will be quite interesting to see if Wells Fargo can continue to produce profits in this global economic downturn.