The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo publish the Housing Market Index (HMI) each month, otherwise ...

Don't Sweat The Modest Weakness Bonds began the day roughly unchanged and very flat for most of the morning. MBS began ...

One would think that the pace of new residential construction largely mirrors the pace of filings for building permits. And ...

A week from today is “Take Your Child to Work Day.” Something tells me that it won’t be observed in U.S. Government offices.

The Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) mortgage application survey was at the highest combined level since October in last week's data--a move largely driven by the a sharp drop in interest rates ...

Mortgage rates managed to make a nice amount of progress this week after hitting the highest levels in roughly 2 months last Friday. The first 2 days of the week brought the most meaningful ...

The market and market participants could use a break after everything endured over the past 2 weeks.  This holiday-shortened ...

Bonds Reprise Familiar Role as a Safe Haven Amid Renewed Rout in Stocks You've seen it plenty of times so far in 2025. You've ...

Financial markets experienced relatively extreme volatility on several occasions following the April 2nd tariff announcements ...

As markets digested implications of several fiscal policy changes over the past 2 months, a predictable trading pattern ...

What a difference a week makes. The present example has been entirely different than the previous example in terms of ...

It has undoubtedly been an extremely volatile week for financial markets and that includes the U.S. bond market to be sure. ...