What Matters in Wednesday's Fed Announcement? The ongoing disagreement in the market regarding the size of Wednesday's Fed ...

This morning's Retail Sales headline was stronger than expected, but the sub-components (analogous to something like core CPI ...

Mortgage rates have fallen nearly 2% from last year's peak.  Much of that decrease can be viewed as the normal phenomenon of ...

Does it give you a sense of permanency if you think about how you’re looking at the same moon as pirates did 300-400 years ...

The  new week began on a relatively quiet note in terms of mortgage rate movement and the underlying bond market.  There was ...

The Pirate goes to the dermatologist and says, “Arrg, I got moles.” The dermatologist says, “Don’t worry, they’re benign.” ...

Does Today's Inflation Data Change Anything? Bonds initially sold off following the higher-than-expected core CPI reading ...

Fed Week Uncertainty Makes For Logical Consolidation Bonds rallied sharply just over a month ago following a downbeat jobs ...

The new week is off to a nice, anti-climactic start.  Monday morning's yields were slightly higher at first but fell into ...

We've talked a lot about why the Fed rate cut will have no additional positive impact on mortgage rates next week. Everything the market can already reasonably foresee about what the Fed might ...