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Action Packed Calendar But No Major Action in Bonds This morning's economic calendar was certainly the most action-packed of ...
In terms of line items, Wednesday morning is the week's most active morning for economic reports. Several of them were ...
Mortgage rates continue enjoying a completely different volatility regime compared to just a few weeks ago.  Back then, it wasn't a surprise to see the top tier average rate move by more than 0.10% on ...
It's now been more than a week since mortgage rates ended the day higher than the previous day.  And we haven't recovered ...
Mortgage rates ended last week at the lowest levels since April 7th.  The average lender remained at those same levels at the ...
My cat Myrtle was always interested in both the primary and secondary markets… for line-caught halibut. In residential ...
When getting a sense of what's happening in the bond market, it's frequently safe to ignore the last 2 hours of trading on ...
Once again, bonds were modestly weaker overnight and once again, that weakness is being reversed in early trading. Whereas ...
After the big spike seen 2 weeks ago, mortgage rates remained elevated enough to greatly dampen the demand for refinancing ...
As is the case for the monthly data on New Home Sales from the Census Bureau, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) ...
The Census Bureau released March New Home Sales data this week, and it was near the best levels seen since early 2022. ...
Eerily Calm and Strong For 2nd Straight Day After being heavily conditioned to expect elevated volatility with unpredictable ...