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

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 ...

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 ...

While there's been no shortage of political and geopolitical headlines over the past 2 business days, there hasn't been much ...

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

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

Not Reading Too Much Into Friday's Weakness At first glance, with only one report on the calendar, it's only logical to give ...