The Federal Reserve is far from the only game in town when it comes to exerting influence on interest rates.  That's a loaded ...

Early Weakness Erased After Labor Market Warning Signs The first few hours of domestic trading caused some concern that the ...

Post Fed Correction Leveling Off? Based on the weakness in the bond market this morning, it looked as if the post-Fed ...

I leave Illinois, with the world’s largest corn maze, and head to Nebraska, with the world’s largest ball of stamps, things ...

Mortgage rates rose modestly last week after hitting long term lows before the Fed announced its 0.50% rate cut.  In not so ...

We publish daily coverage of mortgage rate movement and have done so for nearly 20 years now.  It's a great place to quickly ...

We closed last week with the idea of "buy the rumor, sell the news" seemingly being a good way to think about the time ...

Someone asked me if I had plans for the fall. It took me a moment to realize they meant ‘autumn’ and not the fall of ...

Bonds Lose Ground Despite Larger Fed Rate Cut The Fed was either going to cut 0.50% or 0.25% today.  It opted for the larger ...

Today's release of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey took at bad problem and made it worse. Freddie's survey ...

Wednesday's Fed rate cut was the worst kept secret in the financial world for months, and the 50bp rate cut was increasingly ...

Modest Resistance, But No Big Bad Correction Unless Friday's Consumer Sentiment data manages to surprise in some completely ...