More often than not, mortgage lenders only set rates once a day. Their decisions are based on trading levels in the ...

It was an interesting round trip for the bond market today as overnight weakness gave way to even higher yields after the ISM ...

I think that I read somewhere that there’s an election today (in addition to the Boeing strike ending). Certainly, the sun ...

Last week could easily have left us with the impression that the bond market's love affair with economic data was put on hold ...

Election Remains Dominant Source of Volatility While the average day of the past few weeks has involved election odds pushing ...

Love it or hate it, election-related volatility has been having a big impact on the bond market and, thus, mortgage rates. ...

Up until last Friday, 10yr Treasury yields had consistently closed at 4.27-4.28 last week.  Now this morning, we're at 4.27-4 ...

It is our longstanding policy to strictly avoid politics except in cases where the political realm legitimately intersects ...

As I head from Denver to the Bay Area early this morning, I thought to myself, “Why are corn farmers great at eavesdropping?

Why Bonds Tanked Despite Super Low NFP Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) came in at 12k versus a median forecast of 113k, and a previous ...

When the median forecast for today's jobs report began circulating, many a market watcher felt that the 113k forecast was too ...

The jobs report that came out at the beginning of October was a big wake up call for interest rates.  Up until then, the ...