Solid Response to Data and Dovishness The morning commentary focused more on the relatively dovish tone struck by Powell in ...

Conclusion The present week didn't manage to offer nearly as much excitement as the previous few examples, but that's not ...

Both the FHFA and Case‑Shiller home price indices were released today. While the data collection time frame is from April, ...

Yesterday saw mortgage rates fall to the best levels since early May.  Now, today, we'd have to go all the way back to the ...

Powell's prepared remarks and Q&A at today's congressional testimony are showing the market a clearer path to the possibility of rate cuts in the near future.  While Powell certainly stopped short of ...

Residential business is coming through in dribs and drabs for many lenders, but that doesn’t stop all the random news out ...

Mortgage rates ended the previous week roughly in line with the best levels since May 1st.  Today's modest improvement made ...

A vast majority of long-time bond watchers share the same general understanding of how war impacts rates. Specifically, the ...

Much like the Friday after Thanksgiving, we have to wonder what the point is of a trading session without any neighbors ...

Builder sentiment declined for the second straight month according to the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and ...

With Thursday being a federal holiday, banks (and more importantly, the underlying market for mortgage related bonds) were ...

It happens, but it's rare. A Fed "dot plot" day has come and gone with mortgage rates almost perfectly unchanged from the ...