Two factors had been contributing more than others to drive bond yields higher as of yesterday.  The broader, ongoing factor ...

Broadly Sideways Despite Intraday Volatility Shorter term bonds lost ground today while longer term bonds and MBS managed a ...

In not so many words, last week's thesis was that "no news was good news" for mortgage rates.  Specifically, an absence of ...

If there was an overriding theme last week, it was that the absence of new tariff drama helped the bond market recover some ...

Heading into last week, we expected to be waiting until after the holiday weekend to get a better sense of the prevailing ...

Last week was a hopeful one for interest rates.  The average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate fell more than 0.20% from the ...

The Reasons May be Esoteric, But The Selling is Real Bonds sold off today, in spite of a very bond-friendly CPI. One reason ...

Don't Sweat The Modest Weakness Bonds began the day roughly unchanged and very flat for most of the morning. MBS began ...

The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo publish the Housing Market Index (HMI) each month, otherwise ...

One would think that the pace of new residential construction largely mirrors the pace of filings for building permits. And ...