Decent Gains Remain Intact; Stock Market Contribution is a Wild Card The rescheduled release of the September jobs report ...

It's shaping up to be a "no whammies" sort of morning for the bond market.  There's no denying that the jobs report was a ...

Yesterday, we discussed the fact that mortgage rates were heading into Thursday with a disadvantage (for most lenders, anyway). This had to do with the fact that lenders prefer to avoid changing rates ...

It was a complicated day for mortgage rates.  Officially, at the time of this article, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

With economic data being the most consistent source of motivation for rates, the market has been eager for it to return with ...

Fed Minutes Push Yields Higher As expected, the recent raft of hawkish Fed speakers foreshadowed (whether intentionally or ...

Correlation between stocks and bonds is hit and miss depending on other factors. Before the age of more aggressive Fed intervention, it was more common to see yields move in concert with stocks. These ...

Supposedly commercial air travel is back to normal, good for anyone coming in for the Mortgage Bankers Association of St. Louis event tomorrow and Thursday’s Mortgage Bankers Association of Kansas ...

Modest Gains After Mid-Day Volatility With only a few exceptions, bonds have been a rudderless ship during the government shutdown. With the backlogged data returning in a slow and uncertain fashion, ...

As I type these words, I am sitting in front of one of Chuck Berry’s early residences in St. Louis. STL has a good musical reputation, a fine mortgage association, a Fed that puts out great research, ...

Its dog eat dog in the ranks of the FHFA and Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. The question is, does anyone care, or is anyone ...

Mortgage rates rose somewhat sharply following the late October Fed meeting but have been in a relatively narrow range so far ...