
Bond-Specific Weakness
Bond-Specific Weakness Over the past 6 months, as bonds continued to sell off, there was frequently some solace in the fact that the rate spike correlated with oil or diesel prices enough to hope that an oil price recovery would pave the way for a rate recovery. While there's likely still some benef
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Mortgage Rates Officially Hit 7.5%
Despite Friday afternoon's promising bond market rally and mortgage rate improvement, today's top tier 30yr fixed rate bounced back up. The average lender is now at 7.50% for the first time since April 30, 2024.Β While there's been a lot of short-term correlation between oil prices and interest rate
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Verification, U/W, PPE, Margin Mgt. Tools; Webinars; MISMO and FRAME Offer; Buydown breakdown
Weβre waist deep in conferences (click here to view or add events), and every week I receive a half a dozen invitations to mortgage golf events centered around a conference. How about coming up with something where you can see and talk to more than three other people for 3-4 hours? Group hikes? Make
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Another Red Start, And It's Not All About Oil
Bonds lost ground overnight with traders reacting to Trump's rejection of Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. This isn't the first time that bonds have reacted to war headlines regardless of movement in oil prices. While oil also moved higher throughout the overnight session, bonds are i
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