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Mostly Sideways. Volatility Elsewhere
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:48:34 GMT
Mostly Sideways. Volatility Elsewhere The legend of the bond market's extreme apathy is increasingly making the rounds in financial circles. Bond issuance, inflation, and economic strength are not seen surging en..[read more]
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Mortgage Rates Drift Up to 2-Week Highs
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:23:00 GMT
The bad news: mortgage rates moved up to their highest levels in 2 weeks today. The good news: the rate range has been very narrow during that time, so there's not too much of a difference between 2-week highs (6.20%) and lows (6.15%). ..[read more]
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Customer Intelligence, HELOC, Uplist's Recapture, Construction Products; Rates Are Driven by Markets; IMB Hallway Report
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:08:30 GMT
Regarding rate movement, the bond market often does the Fed's job for it, and so whatever the Fed's Open Market Committee actually does is almost an afterthought. The partial U.S. Government shutdown is hurting economic activity, and companies like N..[read more]
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Data-Free Day Thanks to Shutdown
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:38:14 GMT
While not as disruptive or publicized as the most recent example, there's a partial government shutdown underway. Even if the House passes the funding legislation today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has already said they will not be publishin..[read more]
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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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