Mortgage rates trickled modestly lower again today for the 4th straight business day on Monday. The average top-tier 30yr ...

Volatility Eludes Bonds Bonds saw some steady selling pressure earlier in the week, but with the total damage amounting to an average of 2bps per day in 10yr yields, it was anything but volatile. The ...

PPI... The Producer Price Index. It sounds a lot like CPI because both are published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and ...

There’s a lot of sensible thinking going on out there in our biz. Yesterday in the Thought Leadership section, attorney Mitch ...

Small, Steady Gains and MBS Outperformance It was a relatively quiet Monday for the bond market, but not a bad one.

No Surprises From Powell. No Major Movement in Rates As expected, the Fed held rates steady today. The statement was moderately more hawkish in that it acknowledged progress on the labor market front ...

Fans of MASH know that Alan Alda turned 90 yesterday, and the remaining actors from the show joined him on the beach. When ...

Changed. Other Markets May Have Helped Bonds began the day with a bit of selling pressure.  It was almost too small to draw ...

Mortgage rates may not be as low as they were before the weekend's geopolitical headlines, but they've moved just a hair ...

Both the FHFA and the S&P/Cotality Case-Shiller home price indices released November data this week, and the combined message is that home price appreciation continues doing better than it had been in ...

Mortgage applications continued to ride the waves from last week's dip in rates, extending the surge that followed ...

Continued jobless claims dropped to the lowest level since October 2024 and bonds are selling off a bit.  Those two things ...