Recent experience suggests the safest assumption about oil prices and bond yields is that they will pop and drop with reasonable regularity. In other words, lower prices/yields for a few days ...

Issuance and Oil Strike Back Oil prices continue to ebb and flow in concert with the Iran war news cycle. There's no set ...

As of last Friday, average top-tier mortgage rates hit their lowest levels since July 20th. If they'd managed to drop even 0.01% today, it would have been a new 3-week low.  As it stands, rates ...

Here in the hallways at the Western Secondary in L.A., there isn’t a lot of talk about GSE reform, although this short clip from Sam Valverde, ex-acting president of Ginnie Mae, revisits the subject: ...

Mortgage application activity declined for a second consecutive week as higher borrowing costs continued to weigh on both ...

Mortgage rates rose modestly on Thursday, with multiple lenders making mid-day adjustments in response to bond market ...

FELL 23k versus an 80k forecast.  Last month was revised down as well. From a traditional market-watching perspective, this ...

Mortgage rates had a tough day on Friday, largely in response to bond market volatility surrounding heavy forex trading as a ...

Bonds opened the trading session in much stronger territory, following the drop in oil prices associated with another round ...

Not Quite The Rally You'd Expect, But a Rally Nonetheless Today's vitals might be a bit confusing at first glance. Payrolls ...

I was recently doing some bike riding in the Napa Valley and spent some time speaking with a wine maker. She told me that ...

Does innovation in lending always means building something new? MISMO’s President Brian Vieaux challenges that familiar ...