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Data-Driven Sell-Off Dominates The Day. No Jobs Report on Friday
Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:14:22 GMT
Data-Driven Sell-Off Dominates The Day. No Jobs Report on Friday Very little changed after this morning's commentary. At the time, we were watching bonds sell-off somewhat sharply in response to an exceptionally ..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Only Modestly Higher Despite Bond Market Weakness
Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:35:00 GMT
Weakness in the bond market generally means higher mortgage rates. Today was no exception. A key economic report on the manufacturing sector was much stronger than expected. Bonds lost ground as a result and mortgage lenders were forced to set rates ..[read more]
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Mgt. Review, BBYS, Digital HELOC, Non-QM Products; Opinions on Credit Fixes; IMB Underway
Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:54:30 GMT
There are lots of rumors about more M&A. For example, Maxwell, a POS and mortgage origination services company, being acquired by Place, a real estate tech platform and real estate brokerage company. Place (with its Mortgage Calculator App) is rumore..[read more]
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Big Beat in ISM Manufacturing. Bonds Aren't Thrilled
Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:19:30 GMT
Some would say there were warning signs, such as last week's Chicago PMI surging to the 2nd highest level since 2022, but that was generally dismissed as a noisy outlier in a data set that is volatility-prone. In this case, however, Chicago PMI was p..[read more]
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Volatility Eludes Bonds
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:36:08 GMT
Volatility Eludes Bonds Bonds saw some steady selling pressure earlier in the week, but with the total damage amounting to an average of 2bps per day in 10yr yields, it was anything but volatile. The past 2 tradi..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Sidestep Into The Weekend
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:10:00 GMT
While there was certainly plenty of volatility elsewhere in the financial market this week, there was almost none to be found in mortgage rates. Wed, Thu, and Fri all recorded the exact same level in MND's 30yr fixed rate index--something that only h..[read more]
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November Was Best Month of Home Price Appreciation in More Than a Year
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:09:00 GMT
Both the FHFA and the S&P/Cotality Case-Shiller home price indices released November data this week, and the combined message is that home price appreciation continues doing better than it had been in the middle of 2025. FHFA's seasonally adjusted H..[read more]
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Logical Pull-Back in Mortgage Apps as Rates Rebound
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:59:00 GMT
Mortgage application activity retreated a bit last week following two weeks of unusually strong volume, although holiday timing played a meaningful role in the weekly comparison. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that applications fell..[read more]
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Verification, Licensing Tools; Correspondent News; Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:59:39 GMT
There's a lot of sensible thinking going on out there in our biz. Yesterday in the Thought Leadership section, attorney Mitch Kider addressed the "Rule of Law' and what he believes is important to the industry. In a new article featured in Chrisman C..[read more]
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Why Don't Bonds Care About The Massive Miss in PPI?
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:49 GMT
PPI... The Producer Price Index. It sounds a lot like CPI because both are published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and they share lots of methodology and structure. Given that CPI has been responsible for some of the biggest bond market reactions..[read more]
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