Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains Since earlier in the year ...

This morning's only relevant economic data was weekly jobless claims.  The headline was right in line with forecasts and the ...

There's a distinct risk that, even in the financial community, that people will look back on today's drop in interest rates and conclude it must have something to do with the Federal Reserve's latest ...

You knew that Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined, right? Here at ...

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

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

I went to a Vikings game with a friend and decided I wanted a drink. I wanted the big soda pop, but when I saw the price, I ...

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

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 ...