Yields Finally Break The Range Despite an absence of market movers on the calendar, bonds found a reason to move. In fact, ...

Don't stress out. If we ignore the past 5 days, today's mortgage rates are still the lowest since early 2023.  That said, ...

Builder confidence slipped to start the year, with the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing ...

How are we halfway done with January already? Wasn’t it just New Year’s? Some lenders slow down in the winter, but I am ...

Last week reinforced the lesson anything can happen in the bond market--even with less than an hour left on an otherwise uneventful day. There's no way to plan ahead for that eternal caveat, so we're ...

In our world, no one expects lender and/or vendor mergers and acquisitions to diminish in 2026, and in today’s Mortgage ...

As we reported last week, the announcement that Fannie and Freddie would buy $200bln in mortgage-backed securities led to a ...

Data-Driven Weakness It was a reasonably straightforward day for the bond market. Trading was flat overnight, then weaker ...

According to our chart of MND's mortgage rate index, 30yr fixed rates bottomed at 6.01% yesterday, but that's because the ...

Trading levels in the bond market directly impact the rates that mortgage lenders can offer. This is why rates moved so much ...

Today’s Capital Markets Wrap (3PM ET) will cover how mortgage rates may be impacted by the lack of a traditional flight to ...

The weekly jobless claims data (not to be confused with the big monthly jobs report) is hit and miss when it comes to its ...