Deliveries to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of mortgages with private MI more than quadrupled from the third quarter, hitting $6.58 billion in the fourth quarter.
The brunt of insurance burdens tied to natural disasters fall on property insurance providers, though private MIs could see an uptick in delinquencies.
“The totality of indicators in recent months suggests that neither aggregate demand in the economy nor inflation pressures eased by as much as was previously expected,” the economic team wrote.
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