Pre Fed Jitters? Not Exactly Both stocks and bonds began to swoon moments after this morning's 9:30am NYSE open. That sort of ...

Bonds are under pressure yet again at the start of the new week--insult added to injury coming off of the worst week of ...

Average mortgage rates drifted slightly higher to end the week, though they remained under the levels seen on Monday and ...

Unlike Monday, which saw a fairly brisk move toward higher rates, Tuesday barely budged. Additionally, the budging occurred ...

Mortgage rates improved more noticeably today, and while the average rate isn't quite as low as it was last week, it's fairly close.  Rates are based on movement in the bond market. Bonds were most ...

The early days of a new trading month and the positioning ahead of next week's Fed announcement have resulted in clear curve ...

Existing-home sales posted another modest gain in October, rising 1.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.10 million, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Sales are now 1.7% ...

Seasonally adjusted mortgage application activity edged 1.4% lower last week according to MBA’s Weekly Mortgage Applications ...

Technicals Help Reconcile Selling Pressure In the realm of market commentary, technicals are a vastly overused explanation ...

If there's one resounding theme in the bond market this week, it's that trading momentum marched to its own beat with almost ...

Recent stock market losses have gotten a lot attention in the news recently. While there's no reliable correlation between stocks and interest rates, when stock losses are as big as they have been ...

It was a pretty straightforward overnight session with a very high degree of correlation between bond yields and stock prices. The final leg of the rally arrived on comments from NY Fed Pres Williams ...