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

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

The week's last hope for any signs of life from economic data has come and gone with this morning's Jobless Claims.  To be ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Every month, we offer the same old warning/reminder ahead of the big jobs report--something to the effect of "no other ...

An economist’s left leg is on fire, and his right leg is frozen. He says, ‘On average I'm perfectly fine.’” For those out ...

Although there were flashes of potential volatility in the underlying bond market at times today, mortgage rates made it through unscathed.  In other words, the volatility wasn't sufficient to force ...

Bond Traders Quickly Revise Their Bullishness "Revision" is the word of the day as every armchair economist struggles to ...

The National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)—which tracks contract signings on existing homes—has ...