Although the bond market is technically open today, it might as well not be. Late year holidays (Thanksgiving, X-mas, New ...

Bonds End Unchanged After Another Quiet Session This is essentially placeholder commentary to serve as Friday's recap even though no commentary is needed this week.  Bonds saw some incidental strength ...

Mortgage rates have broadly been in a narrow holding pattern for the past 4 months and an even narrower range during December ...

Decent Gains With Some Help From 7yr Auction You know it's a holiday with an early closure if we're talking about a 7yr ...

It was a short day for the bond market that underlies mortgage rates, but a good one. A side effect of holiday weeks and ...

Running a mortgage company, turns out, isn’t free, and lenders are trying to cut costs and increase efficiency everywhere.

Mortgage rates are tied to movement in the bond market and bonds were close enough to Friday's levels that mortgage rates ...

There was a decent chance that rates would have made a fairly big move today in response to the release of November's jobs ...

Existing-home sales extended their recent stabilization in November, rising 0.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.13 ...

Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) edged up one point to 39. This is the 3rd straight month of improvement in the ...

Mortgage rates were just slightly lower to start the new week. This leaves the average lender's top tier 30yr fixed rate ...

We've spent the past several days reiterating and lamenting the onset of the holiday trading doldrums--a time of year that ...