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

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

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

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

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 ...

MBS Easily Outperform Longer-Term Treasuries Few market watchers would have guessed that MBS would have held almost perfectly ...