Sideways Overall Despite Hawkish Fed Speakers Although there was some mid-day volatility (early buying followed by slower ...
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 ...
Uneventfully Flat After Initial Weakness The bond market only had a little more selling to do thanks to the unpleasant ...
Every now and then, a Thursday comes along where we have to set the record straight on what is actually going on with ...
Are you ready to change the time on your car’s clock, or leave it and let it be right again on March 8, 2026? Some technology ...
The simplest way to understand yesterday's post-Fed sell-off is as follows. The market's enthusiasm for 3 Fed rate cuts in ...
Another Hawkish Powell Press Conference Harshes Bonds' Mellow The Fed cut rates and ended QT.  Neither were surprises for markets and neither had an impact.  The press conference was hawkish, ...
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 ...
Recent Available indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year has been ...