Mortgage applications moved lower last week as rates continued drifting higher for a third straight week. MBA’s Weekly ...

Existing-home sales posted another modest gain in October, rising 1.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.10 million , ...

Builder confidence levels are still kicking the same sad little can down the road, just with slightly more enthusiasm. The ...

It was a pretty straightforward overnight session with a very high degree of correlation between bond yields and stock prices ...

The steaks were pretty high.” The steaks, uh, stakes, are high when changes to our housing finance system occur, or actions are taken that are negatively impact borrowers or reputations. In a typical ...

Bonds Hold Gains Despite Ongoing Recovery in Stocks The stock market factored into the bond market's performance on Friday.  In pre-market trading stocks managed a big bounce after NY Fed's Williams ...

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 ...

Yesterday, we discussed the fact that mortgage rates were heading into Thursday with a disadvantage (for most lenders, anyway ...

Decent Gains Remain Intact; Stock Market Contribution is a Wild Card The rescheduled release of the September jobs report ...

Fed Minutes Push Yields Higher As expected, the recent raft of hawkish Fed speakers foreshadowed (whether intentionally or ...

It was a complicated day for mortgage rates.  Officially, at the time of this article, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

With economic data being the most consistent source of motivation for rates, the market has been eager for it to return with ...