Absence of Data Leaves Focus on Technicals and the Waiting Game The extreme dearth of big ticket economic data was no mystery ...

CPI Lived Up To Market Moving Potential And Then Some For every 14 or 15 times we approach a potential big-ticket market ...

Yesterday's recap began by calling attention to the "extreme dearth of big ticket economic data" this week.  Thursday AM brought the weekly jobless claims data--the first report of the week that had ...

Given that rates take cues from bonds and bonds take cues from economic data, it's perhaps no surprise to see an absence of volatility in rates on a week that has very little to offer in terms of ...

Bonds rallied yesterday, largely in an attempt to catch up with the movement that occurred on Monday when cash trading was ...

Mortgage rates are driven predominantly by the bond market and bonds were able to clear up a few curiosities on inauguration ...

Trump issued numerous executive orders on Monday, but conspicuously absent was any specific directive regarding tariffs. ...

Bonds Calmly Hold Overnight Gains This morning's commentary focused on a bond rally in response to an absence of heavy-handed ...

Mortgage rates are driven by the bond market and Friday was the least active day of the week for bonds.  There were no major ...

Slightly Weaker Drift, But Broadly Uneventful Friday may as well have been a 4th weekend day for the bond market.  Volume and ...

The US Census Bureau released its New Residential Construction report for December today.  The report measures building ...

It always bears repeating that "predictions are for suckers" and if there were a hard and fast rule about what markets do in ...