Focus Shifts to Next Week's High Stakes CPI Bonds lost ground at the fastest pace of the week on Friday, but even that ended ...

Mortgage application activity rebounded last week as falling rates boosted both purchase and refinance demand. The Mortgage ...

People gearing up for the Western Secondary in Southern California see that “technology” is on the agenda. (Of course, it is ...

Any week in early August (before anyone is back to school yet) classifies a "dog days of summer" type of week for the bond ...

Mortgage rates finally moved in a slightly more noticeable direction today, but the change was still inconsequential in the bigger picture. The average 30yr fixed rate in our index edged up a mere 2 ...

Mortgage rates have barely budged after Monday with the day-over-day change failing to exceed 0.02% on any given day. But ...

We don't want to jinx it, but this is turning out to be an uncommonly calm week of trading compared to other post-jobs-report ...

Fairly Resilient Despite Bumpy Auction The relevant morning econ data was limited to Jobless Claims. While the weekly and ...

More Ground-Holding Despite Weird Intraday Spike This morning's commentary led with our desire to avoid jinxing this week's ...

Mortgage rates are driven by movement in the bond market and bonds take cues from economic data, among other things. The ...

Bonds Hold Steady After Modest Data-Driven Rally Today's (and to be fair, this week's) only major econ data--ISM ...

Yesterday saw the average 30yr fixed rate fall back in line with levels from early October, 2024. This happened for two ...