Absence of Data Leaves Focus on Technicals and the Waiting Game The extreme dearth of big ticket economic data was no mystery ...
Bonds rallied yesterday, largely in an attempt to catch up with the movement that occurred on Monday when cash trading was ...
Given that rates take cues from bonds and bonds take cues from economic data, it's perhaps no surprise to see an absence of volatility in rates on a week that has very little to offer in terms of ...
Slightly Weaker Drift, But Broadly Uneventful Friday may as well have been a 4th weekend day for the bond market.  Volume and ...
Trump issued numerous executive orders on Monday, but conspicuously absent was any specific directive regarding tariffs. ...
Mortgage rates are driven predominantly by the bond market and bonds were able to clear up a few curiosities on inauguration ...
While it was never going to be on the same level as yesterday's CPI in terms of market movement potential, Retail Sales was ...
Broad, Negative Momentum is Masking Normal Market Movers Tuesday featured a much weaker PPI report that failed to inspire any ...
After last Friday's jobs report, the evaporation of Fed rate cut probability has been a common refrain.  While it's true that ...
Bonds Calmed Down After Early Weakness This week's relevant economic data is concentrated over the Tue-Thu time frame with ...
We’re more than halfway through January already, the MBA has lowered its 2025 projection to $2.1 trillion, and there is a sense of “wait and see” out there among lenders and vendors ...
It always bears repeating that "predictions are for suckers" and if there were a hard and fast rule about what markets do in certain scenarios, traders could take advantage of those probabilities ...