Mortgage applications jumped sharply last week, driven by lower rates and a rebound in refinance activity. According to MBA’s ...

With the shutdown ongoing, and the big ticket econ data vanished into the void, there's little for the bond market to do ...

After hitting the highest level in several weeks on Thursday, mortgage rates managed to move moderately lower on Friday. Counterpoint: Friday's rates are still the 2nd highest of the past 2 weeks and ...

Both the FHFA and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices released new home-price data this week covering the month of August.

Sideways Overall Despite Hawkish Fed Speakers Although there was some mid-day volatility (early buying followed by slower ...

Every now and then, a Thursday comes along where we have to set the record straight on what is actually going on with ...

The simplest way to understand yesterday's post-Fed sell-off is as follows. The market's enthusiasm for 3 Fed rate cuts in ...

Today was not a foregone conclusion and there was no way to know ahead of time that it would end like this, but the outcome ...

Rates have been flirting with long term lows over the past 2 weeks, but today made it official.  Today's average top tier ...

Recent Available indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year has been ...

Uneventfully Flat After Initial Weakness The bond market only had a little more selling to do thanks to the unpleasant ...

Bonds are a hair weaker this morning with losses showing up in the overnight session and mostly flattening out in domestic ...