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| Counting Down to Ending The Shutdown After Tuesday"s Holiday Closure | ||
| 11/10/2025 3:27 PM | ||
| Counting Down to Ending The Shutdown After Tuesday"s Holiday Closure Bonds were weaker in the overnight session with at least some of the blame presumably going to a sudden improvement in the prospects for reopening the government. To whatever extent that blame is merited, the rest of the week is increasing...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Edge Higher But Remain in November Range | ||
| 11/10/2025 2:39 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates went into the weekend with a small cushion thanks to movement in the bond market on Friday. Specifically, bonds improved after mortgage rates came out for the day. If the improvement had been sharper, mortgage lenders likely would have made a mid-day adjustment to slightly lower levels. The implication was that rates would have been ...Read More | ||
| Tax Service, Realtor Marketing, Debt Payment Tools; Curinos on Apps; Events and Training | ||
| 11/10/2025 10:46 AM | ||
| “6-7!” has swept the nation for youngsters of indeterminant age, and for no real reason. Other numbers have meaning, as do dates. For example, today is November 10th and on this day in 1975, the freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a massive storm, killing all 29 of the crew. (Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy in a ...Read More | ||
| Shutdown Resolution in Sight. What Next? | ||
| 11/10/2025 10:18 AM | ||
| If members of the House can make it back to D.C. in sufficient numbers, there"s a real possibility that the shutdown will end this week. Some marketplace chatter is attempting to connect overnight bond market weakness to those prospects, but an early recovery suggests some skepticism (because the recovery didn"t coincide with any new news on the sh...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Rise Gently, But Still Well Below This Week"s Highs | ||
| 11/7/2025 1:24 PM | ||
| Wednesday"s mortgage rates were the highest in roughly a month and very close to the highest levels in 2 months. This followed stronger economic data on that same morning. Rates moved back down yesterday after separate econ data told a different story. Now on Friday, it"s a mixed bag. The underlying bond market was slightly weaker to start ...Read More | ||
| Non-QM, Lock Service, Valuation M&A, Borrower Satisfaction, ARM Hedging Tools; Robinhood Enters Mortgage | ||
| 11/7/2025 10:50 AM | ||
| How was the Louve in Paris robbed? The password for the cameras was… ready? Louve. (I’m sure that the Smithsonian, MOMA, and Vatican IT staffs are busy changing theirs. (I have my passwords in a notebook… no one can read my scrawl.) Let’s hope that the Federal Aviation Administration has better security, and its website says, “The FAA manages the w...Read More | ||
| Econ Data Keeping Bonds Flat | ||
| 11/7/2025 9:51 AM | ||
| Although bonds began the day in roughly unchanged territory, they began losing ground shortly thereafter. Things changed at the 9:30am NYSE open as stock losses helped arrest the selling pressure. Then at 10am ET, weaker Consumer Sentiment data (with a record low in current conditions) helped completely erase the selling...Read More | ||
| Have Bonds Found Their Post-Fed Footing? | ||
| 11/6/2025 4:14 PM | ||
| Have Bonds Found Their Post-Fed Footing? Looked at one way, bonds have been in a moderate selling trend since Fed day. Viewed through another lens, Fed day caused an isolated lurch toward higher yields and then we were generally sideways until yesterday"s econ data caused another lurch higher. The com...Read More | ||
| Nice Little Recovery For Mortgage Rates | ||
| 11/6/2025 3:29 PM | ||
| As of yesterday afternoon, mortgage rates were right in line with the highest levels in more than a month. The upward momentum was largely a product of 2 specific days: the October 29th Fed announcement and yesterday"s duo of economic reports that suggested less cause for concern over the labor market and strength of the services sector. Now today...Read More | ||
| AI Processing, Borrower Experience and Targeting Tools; Labor Market is Being Pummeled | ||
| 11/6/2025 10:51 AM | ||
| Frequent conference goers or traveling salespeople are obviously concerned about the Trump Administration cutting 10 percent of flights for a variety of reasons. 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration agents are working without pay. For anyone looking for a job through the Job Board, here’s a pro tip for a ...Read More | ||