I asked a German girl if Germans are afraid of numbers. She said 9!” Numbers make up the bond market, and a steeper yield ...

Mortgage application activity eased last week, but not in a statistically significant way.  One might be inclined to note a ...

For the 11th straight business day, mortgage rates are very close to the levels from the end of the previous day.  Over the ...

Almost No Reaction to Fed Minutes As expected, today's Fed Minutes (a more detailed account of the meeting that took place 3 weeks ago) had very little impact on the bond market. Markets honed in on ...

The latest Residential Construction report from the Census Bureau showed a sharp rebound in July, with overall housing starts ...

Mortgage rates are based on bonds and bonds, and bonds have some seasonality to them.  This doesn't necessarily mean there's ...

Builder sentiment remains deeply subdued, as the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo’s Housing ...

Mortgage rates are as high as they've been on almost any other day this month.  You'd have to go back to August 1st to see ...

Slow, Steady, Modest Improvement Bonds are in the throes of the summertime "blahs." In other words, excitement and ...

If yesterday was marked by incidental weakness, today is shaping up to be the opposite.  In fact, yields and MBS prices are ...

The difference between me and Superman is that he has super vision. I require supervision.” We’re halfway through the third ...

Apologies first! Yesterday I mistakenly wrote, “ARMs now account for nearly 50 percent of applications…” Thank you again to ...