Big Market Reaction but Mortgages Outperform Today's jobs report would have been bad for rates if it was even in line with ...

Today brought the hotly anticipated jobs report.  This is the "official" job count and unemployment rate data for the U.S. and no other report has as much consistent power to cause volatility in the ...

Apart from the fact that this morning's jobs report contrasted starkly from the slew of anecdotal evidence suggesting a ...

Tomorrow is the 4th of July, the only time of the year Americans say the day and month in the correct order. We find ourselves in the traditional “dog days of summer” which refer to the hottest and ...

ADP employment was this morning's key economic report and it came out sharply weaker than expected (-33k vs 95k f'cast).

Mortgage application activity moved higher last week as rates declined to the lowest levels since April, according to the ...

Mortgage rates have generally been falling since May 21st and have done nothing but move lower for more than 2 weeks.  That ...

Bonds Circle The Wagons Ahead of High Risk NFP The consensus for tomorrow's NFP (nonfarm payrolls, the principal component of ...

The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” Just like that, 2025 is half over. With it have come changes at the GSEs, ...

It's been 88 days since the average 30yr fixed mortgage rate was as low as it is today--close enough to 3 months.  Some ...

Traders Buy The Dip After AM Data After a bit of overnight strength and an early morning pull-back, bonds were right in line ...

The National Association of Realtors' Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)—which tracks contract signings on existing homes—has ...