A common recent refrain is that the bond market (which dictates interest rates) is having to make do without many of the most important regularly-scheduled economic reports due to the government ...

Wednesday More Likely to Take Cues From Econ Data Bonds benefited from heavy stock selling late in the overnight session.

Mortgage applications jumped sharply last week, driven by lower rates and a rebound in refinance activity. According to MBA’s ...

Both the FHFA and the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller indices released new home-price data this week covering the month of August.

Light Volatility After Initial Losses The first day of the new month began with some potential excitement, albeit not the ...

With the shutdown ongoing, and the big ticket econ data vanished into the void, there's little for the bond market to do ...

Today was not a foregone conclusion and there was no way to know ahead of time that it would end like this, but the outcome ...

The simplest way to understand yesterday's post-Fed sell-off is as follows. The market's enthusiasm for 3 Fed rate cuts in ...

It doesn't always work like this, but today's overnight session saw the classic "conventional wisdom" trade with stocks prices and bond yields falling in concert. Believe it or not, this is the ...

Another Hawkish Powell Press Conference Harshes Bonds' Mellow The Fed cut rates and ended QT.  Neither were surprises for ...

Every now and then, a Thursday comes along where we have to set the record straight on what is actually going on with ...

Rates have been flirting with long term lows over the past 2 weeks, but today made it official.  Today's average top tier ...