We find ourselves in the 3rd quarter of 2026. The stock market has made the headlines, but between a) the reduction in the number of publicly held companies, and b) the weight given to AI-related ...

Bonds have added modestly to Tuesday's big quarter-end sell-off (a phenomenon that has nothing to do with the sorts of fundamental developments that dictate a vast majority of market movement).

Why We Saw Steady Selling All Day We expected volatility would pick up on Tuesday for one reason or another and it did not ...

Starting last Thursday, mortgage rates have barely budged. In terms of our 30yr fixed index, the maximum day-over-day change ...

Volatility Risk Ramps Up From Here Monday made it clear that traders are playing by the typical summertime, holiday week ...

Lenders often ask about improving their execution, and STRATMOR’s current blog is “Pricing That Can Help Borrowers.” MLOs ...

Early Gains. Flat Afternoon. MBS Underperform Friday ended up offering a boring conclusion to a week that had at least some ...

Mortgage rates officially hit their lowest level in more than a month yesterday with MND's 30yr fixed index falling to 6.53% from 6.55% on Wednesday. Today was completely unchanged at 6.53%, thus ...

New home sales weakened further in May, extending the pullback seen over the past several months as elevated mortgage rates ...

Mortgage applications posted a modest increase last week, though overall activity remained subdued by historical standards as ...