Bonds yields stayed lower than oil prices suggested yesterday afternoon. The same is true this morning, but oil prices have ...

After a somewhat hopeful day on Wednesday, mortgage rates are back to their same old tricks on Thursday. The tricks in ...

What’s new out there? Well, United Airlines is talking about having couches in the air. There’s always something new in ...

That Escalated Quickly It would be easy to check in on the bond market at some point on Thursday afternoon and conclude there'd been precipitous escalation in the Iran war or some other big new ...

Sometimes life comes down to a coin toss. Here in Virginia Beach, at the Southern Trust Mortgage Sales Summit, a conversation ...

There have been various comments from U.S. officials about ending the war for several weeks (i.e. on March 9th, Trump said the war could be over soon). Yesterday's developments (Trump comments on the ...

Noticeably Lighter Volatility. Why? Wednesday offered a welcome break from the pervasive volatility seen since the start of ...

Juxtaposition of Escalation and De-escalation Keeping Bonds Volatile Tuesday was notable for financial markets' attempts to ...

Even though there were doubts about their scope and impact, yesterday morning's headlines introduced the prospect of some sort of ceasefire in the Iran war. Markets traded accordingly, including the ...

It was a fairly uneventful day for mortgage rates, but also a fairly decent one. The underlying bond market made modest gains ...

Mortgage rates got hit 3 times on Wednesday, with the net effect being a move back up to the highest levels in several months ...

Mortgage rates are dictated by bonds and bonds had a volatile day. During overnight trading hours, bonds suggested we should brace for the impact of even higher rates. Things changed just after 7am ET ...