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Technicals Help Reconcile Selling Pressure
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:40:03 GMT
Technicals Help Reconcile Selling Pressure In the realm of market commentary, technicals are a vastly overused explanation for past movement, let alone for the prediction of future movement. In this week's case, ..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Could See More Volatility Next Week
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:06:00 GMT
Average mortgage rates drifted slightly higher to end the week, though they remained under the levels seen on Monday and Tuesday. Even then, none of this week's movement was especially abrupt. That's interesting considering there was a decent amount ..[read more]
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Mortgage Apps Ebb Despite Strongest Purchase Demand in Years
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:43:00 GMT
Seasonally adjusted mortgage application activity edged 1.4% lower last week according to MBA's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending November 28. Unadjusted applications were down sharply (33%) due to the holiday. The Refinance In..[read more]
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Earned Equity, HELOC, CRM, AI Agent, DSCR Hedging Products; Conventional Conforming Changes
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:45:01 GMT
Recently I paid over $10 for a simple Oscar Mayer 12-ounce package of bacon. Jerome Powell, help me! Well, the U.S. Federal Reserve doesn't set bacon prices, or things that come from China like rare earth metals, most of which I've never heard of but..[read more]
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Inconsequential Data and Modest Movement
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:33:18 GMT
If there's one resounding theme in the bond market this week, it's that trading momentum marched to its own beat with almost zero regard for the available economic data. While this was a notable disconnect on Wednesday (little reaction to ADP/ISM), i..[read more]
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Bond Momentum Continues Ignoring Data
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:21:40 GMT
Bond Momentum Continues Ignoring Data On multiple recent occasions, we've seen bonds make a moderate move on days with important economic reports, but not in response to those economic reports. Thursday was the l..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Are Actually Higher This Week
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:46:00 GMT
Today's mortgage rates a just a hair higher than yesterday's and although yesterday's rates were reasonably close to last Friday's, they were still definitely higher. That last assertion is at odds with some of the mortgage rate media coverage you ma..[read more]
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Home Value, Due Diligence, AVM, Refi Products; Extensive HELOC, DSCR, Non-QM Product Changes
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:39:57 GMT
"No plan survives contact with the enemy.' While Freddie rolled out its AI plans, for some lenders, mortgage companies owned by builders, and the builders themselves, can sometimes be viewed as adversaries. In dealing with buyers of new homes, builde..[read more]
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Lowest Initial Jobless Claims Reading Since 2022
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:53:07 GMT
Bonds were already slightly weaker in the overnight session, but the Jobless Claims data won't be any help. Initial claims fell to 191k--the lowest they've been since 2022 and one of the lowest readings since the 1960s. An isolated extreme in w..[read more]
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Weaker Data Endorses the In-Progress Rally
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:33:44 GMT
Weaker Data Endorses the In-Progress Rally Who knows how today would have ended up if the relevant econ data had come in stronger than expected. Perhaps that would have been enough to see an earlier, more threate..[read more]
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