“I was always a home builder, but lately I’ve developed an apartment complex.” Here in Florida, so many structures are made of stucco because stucco is fairly inexpensive, creates a great finished ...

Thursday's Data Offered No Objection to Overnight Rally Thursday's PPI was just as tame as Wednesday's CPI and, for a moment, ...

Mortgage rates being offered today are only a hair lower for the average lender than they were on June 4th, but June 4th was ...

Heading into today's CPI data, our stance was that we'd need to see the monthly core number come in at 0.1 vs 0.3 in order to ...

This morning's PPI did its best impression of yesterday's CPI with the core monthly number coming in at 0.1 vs 0.3 forecast.

Nice Rally on Data and Auction Results Wednesday ended up being a straightforward session for bonds with a large CPI beat ...

After a calm start to the week on Monday and Tuesday, we were likely to see a bit more volatility on Wednesday due to ...

Here in Tampa, I was walking through the hotel bar last night when I overheard someone say, “Age 60 might be the new 40, but ...

How About Tomorrow? After a slightly bumpy start for reasons that remain unknown, the bond market settled into an uneventful sideways grind that lasted through the 3pm CME close. Both MBS and ...

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It was a fairly boring day on what has turned out to be a fairly boring week so far for mortgage rates.  After Friday's ...

As hoped, Friday's big rate spike did not carry additional momentum into the new week.  This is occasionally a risk when rates are responding to big surprise in the jobs report, but slightly less of a ...