When it comes to economic data with any real significance, today only offered two reports: PPI and Consumer Sentiment. ...
Preparing for the next hurricane in Florida? Or Louisiana? Or Texas? Call this really smart or really humorous, it’s up to ...
Bonds Turn Green Despite Plenty of Volatility It was touch and go in the mid-day hours as early stability (modest gains, even ...
We can appreciate that the daunting task of determining what "the" actual mortgage rate may be at any given moment.  The word ...
Hey, I like a good raccoon swarm as much as the next guy, but you couldn’t pay me to walk out there in that yard. Speaking of ...
At first glance, it looks as if the bond market will make it through Thursday morning without being too worse for the wear.
Don't Expect Salvation From CPI Bonds lost a bit of ground on Wednesday with Treasuries having a far rougher go of it than MBS, but not by much, ultimately.  If one had to guess at reasons for the MBS ...
Today brought the release of the minutes from the most recent Fed meeting in addition to numerous Fed speeches and the ...
Should it concern us that, a few days ago, it was pointed out that from now until Nov. 26, there’s at least one football game ...
This week's economic calendar is choked with Fed speeches and most of them are happening today.  Collectively, those will be ...
Worst is Over. Now What? Good things happened in the bond market on Tuesday.  There was a bit of a scare in the AM hours as a ...
Mortgage rates spiked at their fastest pace in months on Friday following the jobs report and yesterday added insult to ...