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(Un)Surprising Reversal After Initial Weakness The sharp overnight losses in stocks and bonds were consistent with a market ...
Mortgage rates jumped sharply over the weekend as financial markets reacted to Moody's credit rating downgrade of the U.S.  News of the downgrade broke with only minutes left in Friday's ...
People who don’t attend the National Secondary here in Manhattan wonder what happens behind the scenes. Here you go. We had ...
When Moody's announced the surprise cut of the US credit rating on Friday, there were only a few minutes left to trade and ...
The average top tier 30yr fixed rate is set to end the week just a few hundredths of a percent higher than last Friday at ...
The Census Bureau is out with monthly construction numbers for April showing an uptick in construction activity offset by ...
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo released the monthly Housing Market Index (HMI) this week, ...
Home purchase demand improved improved last week according to the MBA mortgage application survey. The improvement over the ...
Today's Gains Help Us Understand Yesterday's Losses Wednesday's weakness was severely lacking in the scapegoat department. In ...
Another "Just Because" Sell Off This is getting old...  and unfortunately, more prevalent. The bond market has been offering ...
This morning's market action is quickly helping us understand the enigmatic trading seen yesterday (i.e. a sell-off without ...
One might assume that an economic report like Import Prices would carry a lot of weight in light of the news cycle or that ...