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Mortgage rates spent the entire month of October moving higher at a fairly quick pace.  Some of that had to do with stronger ...

Does The Fed Still Matter? Bonds sold off overnight as the reality of Trump's victory became apparent.  Traders more or less ...

In today's weekly mortgage application survey from the MBA, the average 30yr fixed mortgage rate only rose from 6.73 to 6.81% ...

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Heading into the election, we knew the bond market was losing ground in concert with improving odds of a Trump victory and red sweep.  After being surprised in 2016, markets were determined to bake in ...

Last week could easily have left us with the impression that the bond market's love affair with economic data was put on hold ...

More often than not, mortgage lenders only set rates once a day. Their decisions are based on trading levels in the underlying bond market.  Even though bonds are constantly moving, it doesn't make ...

Election Remains Dominant Source of Volatility While the average day of the past few weeks has involved election odds pushing ...

Love it or hate it, election-related volatility has been having a big impact on the bond market and, thus, mortgage rates. ...

It is our longstanding policy to strictly avoid politics except in cases where the political realm legitimately intersects ...

Bonds Brace For Election Results It was an interesting round trip for the bond market today as overnight weakness gave way to even higher yields after the ISM Services PMI.  ISM was legitimately ...