Does Today's Inflation Data Change Anything? Bonds initially sold off following the higher-than-expected core CPI reading ...
Honey, what did you do today?” “Well…” People do some cockamamie stuff against all odds. What are the odds of a lender or LO retaining their client after the loan has been brokered out or the ...
Thursday brings this week's last opportunity for the market to react to moderately important economic data before next week's Fed announcement.  So far, it looks like fireworks are not on the menu.
Mortgage rates moved lower again today despite a key inflation report coming in higher than expected.  This is ...
Heading into today's CPI data, there were valid doubts about the data's role as one of the two biggest market movers (the ...
Mortgage rates are based on trading in the bond market and bonds consistently take cues from economic data.  Among the data, ...
The average lender's top tier 30yr fixed rate fell to the lowest level since April 2023 last week. That's down more than 1.25 ...
Mortgage rates have a long and storied history of making big moves on the day that the big monthly jobs report comes out.  In ...
Will The Market Still Care About CPI? Ask anyone who's been following the rate market for many years what the most important ...
Despite heavy volume and volatility, Friday's trading session managed to conclude in roughly sideways territory.  The new ...
Wouldn't it be nice if you could know what was going to happen with mortgage rates before it actually happened?  Since the ...
At first glance, this morning's jobs report suggested a modest but clearly-defined increase in the likelihood of a 50bp rate ...