Mortgage rates are driven by the bond market and bonds consistently take cues from economic data.  Traders have been waiting ...

Ever since last Thursday's econ data failed to cause a stir in financial markets, we knew we'd be waiting until today for big ...

Today would have been the 65th birthday of comedian Norm Macdonald. And while that may make your head shake, here’s something ...

Mortgage rates have been holding in a fairly narrow range since the middle of last week and today was one of the least ...

Uneventful Day, But That's a Victory These Days Last week's bond market action offered some glimmers of hope that the most ...

The market was hungry for data before the jobs report week and has been even hungrier since then.  Unfortunately, there haven ...

Thursday Morning is This Week's Biggest Volatility Risk While there was certainly a bit of an upward drift in Treasury yields through the end of last week, mortgage rates and MBS saw it as a bit more ...

We can appreciate that the daunting task of determining what "the" actual mortgage rate may be at any given moment.  The word ...

Hey, I like a good raccoon swarm as much as the next guy, but you couldn’t pay me to walk out there in that yard. Speaking of ...

Bonds moved into stronger territory over the 3 day weekend in a move largely attributed to de-escalation in the Middle East ...

This week's economic calendar is choked with Fed speeches and most of them are happening today.  Collectively, those will be ...

Should it concern us that, a few days ago, it was pointed out that from now until Nov. 26, there’s at least one football game ...