Builder sentiment declined for the second straight month according to the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and ...

Mortgage application activity declined modestly last week despite a drop in rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) latest survey. The Composite Index fell 2.6% on a seasonally ...

With Thursday being a federal holiday, banks (and more importantly, the underlying market for mortgage related bonds) were closed.  This means that lenders were not able to update mortgage rates.

Much like the Friday after Thanksgiving, we have to wonder what the point is of a trading session without any neighbors ...

Solstice, and happy 50th birthday to the movie Jaws. Back then, for security, all we had to remember was where we hid our ...

Fed Threads Needle of Apathy Today marked one of only 4 days of the year with an updated Fed dot plot. When it came out, ...

It happens, but it's rare. A Fed "dot plot" day has come and gone with mortgage rates almost perfectly unchanged from the ...

Mortgage rates continue operating in a narrow range with almost every day of the past two months falling between 6.8 and 7.0% ...

Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to ...

Today we hear from the U.S. Federal Reserve. We can expect no change to overnight fed funds. As pointed yesterday by Dr. Paul ...

After a Memorial Day-induced lull, mortgage application activity rebounded sharply last week, according to the Mortgage ...

Dot Plot in Focus With Fed's "No Cut" Announcement Bonds lost some ground after this morning's economic data, arguably in ...