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Bonds Dial Back Ahead of Big Jobs Report It was a fairly interesting day for bonds, relative to the calendar of scheduled ...
Mortgage rates began the day perfectly in line with yesterday's latest levels for the average lender. By the afternoon, the ...
The last time I was in Florida I saw a bumper sticker that said, “I thought growing old would take longer.” This weekend I ...
Whether or not today's drop in rates is meaningful depends on one's perspective, but in the context of recent rate movement, ...
Bonds began the morning in rally mode, even if not in an extreme way.  Gains lasted for about 20 minutes before reversing. ...
Big Bond Rally After ADP and ISM We knew the onus was on weaker economic data to justify any decent drop in rates/yields and ...
JOLTS Data Didn't Help, But it Didn't Hurt Much Either Bonds were moderately stronger overnight and then weaker after the ...
Sometimes a Tuesday is just a Tuesday for mortgage rates.  In the present week, any day is capable of generating some ...
As the world is watching the chicks learn to fly on the eagle cam, in the human world there are more “For Sale” signs. You ...
Mortgage rates have been in an exceptionally narrow range since last Tuesday with the 30yr fixed index hovering just under 7% ...
Strongest Close of the Week After Well-Contained Month-End Volatility There was always a reasonably high bar for today's econ ...
It's been a fairly simple morning so far for the bond market. Both of the morning's key economic reports came in weaker than ...