💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits below. Fresh numbers suggest that more buyers may finally catch a break: * National benchmark home prices are 18% off their peak * Weekly paycheques have climbed 18% in 48 months * Mortgage insurance rules are their loosest in years, and * Mortgage rates are flirting with three-year lows. Mortgage

Here's what's shifted yields this Monday, and in which direction:

Last month, Japan's long-bond yields soared to unprecedented heights before temporarily retracing. Probably over 90% of Canadian mortgagors didn't even think twice about it, or once, for that matter. Yet, Japan's debt challenges—while more extreme than most—mirror a global shift in the