Focus Shifts to Next Week's High Stakes CPI Bonds lost ground at the fastest pace of the week on Friday, but even that ended ...

Mortgage rates finally moved in a slightly more noticeable direction today, but the change was still inconsequential in the bigger picture. The average 30yr fixed rate in our index edged up a mere 2 ...

Mortgage application activity rebounded last week as falling rates boosted both purchase and refinance demand. The Mortgage ...

Any week in early August (before anyone is back to school yet) classifies a "dog days of summer" type of week for the bond ...

People gearing up for the Western Secondary in Southern California see that “technology” is on the agenda. (Of course, it is ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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