Treasury Auction to The Rescue The day began with a bond market that looked like it might take an opportunity to retrace a ...

Mortgage rates were perfectly unchanged today, on average.  With that, they remain in line with the lowest levels in more ...

Think back to October 17th. MBS opened slightly weaker and ended the day down about an eighth of a point.  That was the last ...

Why did the Tibetan Monks go to Las Vegas? They are very good at games of chants.” One topic among hallway chats with lenders ...

Slow, Steady Gains Continue Perhaps the absence of big-ticket econ data has left bond traders to ponder a reality that they ...

The bonds that underly mortgage rates were only slightly stronger today, but that's never a bad thing when they closed near ...

On the one hand, there's not much going on for the bond market these days.  The jobs report is a flat-out requirement in ...

Strange Combo of Excitement and Boredom Boring stuff first: there was no significant data, news, volume, or volatility today. Bonds gained modest ground early and then held mostly sideways through the ...

New week. Same grind. We're waiting (likely for a good while longer) for the government shutdown to end before the most ...

Logical Pull-Back on Tamer Tariff Talk, But Mortgages Outperform If there was only one event to be aware of on Friday, it was ...

The average top tier 30yr fixed rate was unchanged on Friday despite the bond market being slightly weaker. Normally, weaker ...