We've spent the past several days reiterating and lamenting the onset of the holiday trading doldrums--a time of year that ...

Mortgage rates are tied to movement in the bond market and bonds were close enough to Friday's levels that mortgage rates ...

Range-Bound Cruise Control, PM Edition Bonds came into the domestic session at slightly weaker levels and held mostly ...

The coming days will be so heavily-affected by light volume/liquidity that any apparently significant shifts would be taken ...

As we approach the end of the year, we’re seeing the usual interest in other opportunities, especially if pipelines aren’t full or management is dealing with people “aging out.” I received this note: ...

Running a mortgage company, turns out, isn’t free, and lenders are trying to cut costs and increase efficiency everywhere.

There was a decent chance that rates would have made a fairly big move today in response to the release of November's jobs ...

Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) edged up one point to 39. This is the 3rd straight month of improvement in the ...

Bond Market in Holiday Mode Holiday mode is impossible to clearly define when it comes to its impact on the bond market. We ...

Mortgage rates were just slightly lower to start the new week. This leaves the average lender's top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

Unemployment Not High Enough For a Full-Fledged Rally If the only metric from this morning's jobs report was the uptick in ...