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| Bonds Ultimately Follow Oil"s Lead, Heading Lower On War-Related Optimism | ||
| 4/14/2026 3:27 PM | ||
| Bonds Ultimately Follow Oil"s Lead, Heading Lower War-Related Optimism While there were no incredibly memorable sound bytes on the Iran war today, there were a few headlines that proved to be actionable for financial markets. The most actionable (by a wide margin) was a report on Fox News around 10am quotin...Read More | ||
| Lowest Mortgage Rates in 4 Weeks | ||
| 4/14/2026 2:23 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates had their best day of the month so far with the top tier 30yr fixed rate falling 0.08% for the average lender to the lowest levels in exactly 4 weeks. Today"s improvement is a bit bigger than today"s bond market movement would suggest. The discrepancy is due to timing. Bonds were improving fairly steadily since yesterday morning and...Read More | ||
| MERS Review, TPO, Virtual LO, Digital Ass"t, HELOC, Warehouse Products; Policy Moves for LOs to Watch | ||
| 4/14/2026 10:47 AM | ||
| Products, Services, and Software for Brokers and Lenders Meet the Axos Warehouse Lending and WCPL teams at MBA’s Secondary & Capital Markets Conference, May 17–20, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis New York. Axos Warehouse Lending helps mortgage lenders fund efficiently with a streamlined process and reliable execution, built for clarity, consist...Read More | ||
| Why Aren"t Bonds Responding to a Big Beat in Inflation Data? | ||
| 4/14/2026 9:29 AM | ||
| Bonds were fairly flat overnight and haven"t moved much so far in the domestic session. More importantly, until 7am, bonds were slightly weaker even as oil prices have fallen and stocks have rallied. What gives?! If PPI had come in much higher than expected, it would be easier to explain. But despite the 0.1 vs 0.5 reading for core ...Read More | ||
| Weekend Selling Reverses After Another Round of De-Escalation Headlines | ||
| 4/13/2026 3:08 PM | ||
| Weekend Selling Reverses After Another Round of De-Escalation Headlines Another day, another chance to sort through a barrage of war-related headlines to see which ones mattered to the bond market. In today"s case, there were two distinct contenders. The first was apparently bogus. It referred to Iran consi...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Over The Weekend | ||
| 4/13/2026 2:30 PM | ||
| Mortgage rates are based on movement in the bond market and although bonds experienced some volatility in response to Iran war news over the weekend, they ended up in similar territory to Friday morning. As such, it"s no surprise to see mortgage rates in similar territory as well. The average lender began the day 0.02% higher than Friday, bu...Read More | ||
| AI, LOS, Subservicing, MERS Review, Fraud Prevention Tools; Webinars; Wholesale and Correspondent News | ||
| 4/13/2026 10:01 AM | ||
| Products, Services, and Software for Brokers and Lenders FundingShield, the leader in wire & title fraud prevention, released its Q1‑2026 Wire Fraud Analytics & Risk Report showing 43.72 percent of transactions across a $106.7B+ portfolio carried material wire and title‑related defects. CPL discrepancies impacted 43.49 percent of transact...Read More | ||
| Overnight Weakness (But Bouncing Back) After Peace Talks Fail | ||
| 4/13/2026 9:22 AM | ||
| Heading into the weekend, the big news was that the U.S. and Iran would meet in Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal. But by Sunday morning, the talks had failed over an impasse on Iran"s nuclear enrichment program. The market-mover, however, was the U.S. response: a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This sent oil prices sharply higher with 10yr yiel...Read More | ||
| Bonds Drift Weaker Despite Lower Oil Prices | ||
| 4/10/2026 3:22 PM | ||
| Bonds Drift Weaker Despite Lower Oil Prices Although they still technically made positive progress versus the end of last week, bonds ended the day moderately weaker. Lower oil prices offered no support, but that"s a tricky correlation these days. Longer-term oil contracts continue lining up with bond yield...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates Remain Surprisingly Calm | ||
| 4/10/2026 12:44 PM | ||
| If we"re splitting hairs, today"s average mortgage rates are technically higher than yesterday"s, but the change is so small that it"s just as fair to say that rates are flat. This closes out a week with surprisingly low volatility compared to that seen in March. In part, this can be attributed to longer-term oil prices being less volatile after m...Read More | ||