A common recent refrain is that the bond market (which dictates interest rates) is having to make do without many of the most important regularly-scheduled economic reports due to the government ...

Wednesday More Likely to Take Cues From Econ Data Bonds benefited from heavy stock selling late in the overnight session.

It doesn't always work like this, but today's overnight session saw the classic "conventional wisdom" trade with stocks prices and bond yields falling in concert. Believe it or not, this is the ...

Light Volatility After Initial Losses The first day of the new month began with some potential excitement, albeit not the ...

Bonds were moderately weaker in the overnight session with most of the selling arriving at 7:56am ET when Alphabet filed for a large corporate bond offering, estimated at $15bln. Corporate bond ...

Up until last week's Fed announcement, the average 30yr fixed mortgage rate was at the lowest levels in more than a year (in many cases, matching the same lows seen on September 16th--the day before ...

Sideways Overall Despite Hawkish Fed Speakers Although there was some mid-day volatility (early buying followed by slower selling back to roughly unchanged territory), that movement was more in line ...

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.

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 ...