High hopes and crossed fingers may help one's outlook in advance of key economic data, but they are powerless once the data ...

Treasuries made modest gains in overseas trading, but yields are heading higher during domestic hours.  There are two things ...

Small Scale Volatility as Bonds Wait For Jobs Report Bonds lost ground this morning despite a weaker S&P PMI headline.  While ...

We all get the same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.” In 2024 a lot of lenders buckled down every day.

Holidays Came and Went Without any Bond Market Fanfare 2 weeks ago today, we assumed the bond market would leave the office ...

The bond market and interest rates have arrived at the first full week of the new year almost exactly where they left off ...

It is right around now that people give up saying “Happy New Year” to others, mostly because they’ve lost track to whom ...

Major holidays typically involve a full day market closure along with an "early close" on an adjacent day.  This matters to ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) didn't publish updated weekly application numbers last week, which meant that this ...

Hello 2025, goodbye 2024. It’s been 50 years since Jaws or Godfather Part 2 were on the screens. A half a century since Kung ...

Today's ISM Manufacturing report was the only top tier economic data this week.  While we wouldn't say it was "strong" by any ...

Blessings, curses, enigmas, paradoxes, etc... The state of home price appreciation in the U.S. is all of the above.  The ...