The bond market is in a bit of a lull with any excess buying demand flowing to the shorter end of the yield curve. Meanwhile, ...

Post Fed Correction Leveling Off? Based on the weakness in the bond market this morning, it looked as if the post-Fed ...

Early Weakness Erased After Labor Market Warning Signs The first few hours of domestic trading caused some concern that the ...

The Federal Reserve is far from the only game in town when it comes to exerting influence on interest rates.  That's a loaded ...

I leave Illinois, with the world’s largest corn maze, and head to Nebraska, with the world’s largest ball of stamps, things ...

Mortgage rates rose modestly last week after hitting long term lows before the Fed announced its 0.50% rate cut.  In not so ...

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We closed last week with the idea of "buy the rumor, sell the news" seemingly being a good way to think about the time ...

Modestly Weaker But Ultimately Uneventful In terms of the realized volatility relative to potential volatility, this week ...

Credit where credit is due: the rate market did an outstanding job of getting out in front of the Fed rate cut as well as the changes to the Fed's rate cut outlook as communicated in the summary of ...

Wednesday's Fed rate cut was the worst kept secret in the financial world for months, and the 50bp rate cut was increasingly suspected in the week leading up to the announcement. You've likely ...