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

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

Mortgage rates moved modestly lower for the average lender today, but higher for others. The distinction is whether the lender in question made a late-day adjustment yesterday afternoon.  At the time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Some Asymmetric Risk When it Comes to Locking vs Floating Bonds improved today mostly in response to heavy stock losses ...

Mortgage rates are either higher or lower today, depending on the lender in question. Some lenders raised rates on Friday ...

On a week where the mortgage market was most likely to experience volatility due to Friday's jobs report, Thursday afternoon's surprise announcement of $200bln in GSE MBS (mortgage-backed securities) ...

On Thursday afternoon with less than an hour left to trade, Trump announced he would be directing his representatives to buy ...