Mortgage rates are based on movement in the bond market, and the bond market is closed for most of the weekend.  As such, one ...

After improving modestly in the overnight session, bonds contended with the Retail Sales data at 8:30am ET.  At first glance, ...

Mixed Reaction to Retail Sales Makes For a Boring Monday Despite coming in much weaker than expected, Retail Sales (the day's only big-ticket market mover) didn't provide much help for bonds. The ...

Teddy Roosevelt thought that lawyers are trained to serve clients and not justice. An interesting discussion topic.

Time flies. We’re at “pi day” (3.14), two weeks until the end of the quarter, one month before our taxes are due. Tax returns ...

Despite some ups and downs on a small scale, mortgage rates have been sideways in the bigger picture.  That's a good thing if ...

Mortgage rates have moved up over the past 2 days, ultimately hitting the highest levels since February 24th today.  While ...

Mortgage rates hit their highest levels in just over 2 weeks yesterday and they were on track to remain unchanged today. In ...

Why Aren't Bonds Happier About CPI? For the 2nd month in a row, the market's reaction to a CPI/PPI report ended up being less ...

Conventional 30yr fixed mortgage rates hit their lowest levels in months last Tuesday morning, with the average lender right ...

Seemingly overnight (i.e. over the past 30 days when it comes to markets reacting to economic data), the CPI and PPI ...

With fiscal and geopolitical developments dominating the news cycle, it would be easy to forget that interest rates prefer to ...