This morning's Retail Sales headline was stronger than expected, but the sub-components (analogous to something like core CPI ...

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The  new week began on a relatively quiet note in terms of mortgage rate movement and the underlying bond market.  There was ...

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We've talked a lot about why the Fed rate cut will have no additional positive impact on mortgage rates next week. ...

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 ...

Does Today's Inflation Data Change Anything? Bonds initially sold off following the higher-than-expected core CPI reading ...

While it's true that there have only been 8 business days so far this month, it's also true that today is the only one of the ...

Fed Week Uncertainty Makes For Logical Consolidation Bonds rallied sharply just over a month ago following a downbeat jobs ...

The new week is off to a nice, anti-climactic start.  Monday morning's yields were slightly higher at first but fell into ...

Mortgage rates have a long and storied history of making big moves on the day that the big monthly jobs report comes out.  In ...