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

Bonds dealt with a trifecta of unfriendly economic data today with slightly stronger Retail Sales leading the charge. Jobless ...

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 ...

Thursday Morning is This Week's Biggest Volatility Risk While there was certainly a bit of an upward drift in Treasury yields ...

While this week's rates were substantially higher than most of last week's, if we remove a few flashes of volatility,  the ...

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 ...

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

We can appreciate that the daunting task of determining what "the" actual mortgage rate may be at any given moment. The word "the" is singled out in the previous sentence because there isn't one ...

Today brought the release of the minutes from the most recent Fed meeting in addition to numerous Fed speeches and the scheduled auction of 10yr Treasuries. Each of these events has at least ...