In not so many words, last week's thesis was that "no news was good news" for mortgage rates.  Specifically, an absence of ...

If there was an overriding theme last week, it was that the absence of new tariff drama helped the bond market recover some ...

Last week was a hopeful one for interest rates.  The average top tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate fell more than 0.20% from the ...

Heading into last week, we expected to be waiting until after the holiday weekend to get a better sense of the prevailing ...

One would think that the pace of new residential construction largely mirrors the pace of filings for building permits. And ...

Mortgage rates managed to make a nice amount of progress this week after hitting the highest levels in roughly 2 months last ...

The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo publish the Housing Market Index (HMI) each month, otherwise ...

Don't Sweat The Modest Weakness Bonds began the day roughly unchanged and very flat for most of the morning. MBS began ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) mortgage application survey was at the highest combined level since October in last ...

As markets digested implications of several fiscal policy changes over the past 2 months, a predictable trading pattern ...

Financial markets experienced relatively extreme volatility on several occasions following the April 2nd tariff announcements ...

A week from today is “Take Your Child to Work Day.” Something tells me that it won’t be observed in U.S. Government offices.