Overnight Overseas Pressure

Overnight Overseas Pressure

The absence of relevant domestic market movers has been a theme all week.  While that has gone hand in hand with relatively uninspired bond market movement so far, today has been complicated by overseas developments.  Initial pressure came from sharply higher inflation numbers in Australia.  After that, runaway weakness in USD/Yen is fueling concerns over actual or potential intervention from Japan (i.e. selling Treasuries to buy Yen-denominated assets).  Big pops in Yen have indeed coincided with mysterious spurts of Treasury selling so far this morning, with a bit of a delay.

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Decent 2yr Auction, But No Major Inspiration For Bonds

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 98.80 -0.27 10YR 4.330% +0.082% 6/26/2024 5:00PM EST
The absence of relevant domestic market movers has been a theme all week.  While that has gone hand in hand with relatively uninspired bond market movement so far, today has been complicated by overseas developments.  Initial pressure came from sharply higher inflation numbers in Australia.  After that, runaway weakness in USD/Yen is fueling concerns over actual or potential intervention from Japan (i.e. selling Treasuries to buy Yen-denominated assets).  ...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 7.06% +0.03% 15YR Fixed 6.47% +0.03% 6/26/2024
Mortgage rates have been flatter than the earth according to the flat earth society.  Much like the actual earth in many areas in the middle of the country--and especially Florida--things can be flat for as far as the eye can see, but the farther one moves along, the more they'll see the contour. For now, though, mortgage rates are in Florida (or IL, ND, MN, etc...).  Conventional 30yr fixed rates inched up 0.01% from yesterday--effectively unchanged and in the s...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Wednesday, Jun 26
7:00AM Jun/21 Mortgage Market Index Jun/21 212.0 210.4
7:00AM Jun/21 MBA Purchase Index Jun/21 147.8 146.0
7:00AM Jun/21 MBA Refi Index Jun/21 552.4 552.7
7:00AM Jun/21 MBA 30-yr mortgage rate (%) Jun/21 6.93% 6.94%
7:00AM Jun/21 MBA Mortgage Applications Jun/21 0.8% 0.9%
8:00AM May Build permits: change mm (%) May -2.8% -3.8% -3%
8:00AM May Building permits: number (ml) May 1.399M 1.386M 1.440M
10:00AM May New Home Sales (ml) May 0.619M 0.64M 0.634M
10:00AM May New Home Sales (%) (%) May -11.3% -4.7%
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Refinery Crude Runs Change Jun/21 -0.233M -0.282M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Heating Oil Stocks Change Jun/21 0.406M 0.526M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Distillate Fuel Production Change Jun/21 0.142M -0.272M
10:30AM Jun/21 Crude Oil Inventory (ml) Jun/21 3.591M -3M -2.547M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Distillate Stocks Change Jun/21 -0.377M -1.5M -1.726M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Gasoline Production Change Jun/21 -0.289M 0.084M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Gasoline Stocks Change Jun/21 2.654M -1.1M -2.28M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Cushing Crude Oil Stocks Change Jun/21 -0.226M 0.307M
10:30AM Jun/21 EIA Crude Oil Imports Change Jun/21 0.065M -2.48M
11:30AM 2-Yr Note Auction (bl) 28
11:30AM 17-Week Bill Auction (%) 5.220% 5.220%
11:30AM 2-Year FRN Auction (%) 0.155% 0.139%
1:00PM 5-Year Note Auction 4.331% 4.553%
1:00PM 5-Yr Note Auction (bl) 70
4:30PM Bank Stress Tests
Thursday, Jun 27
8:30AM Q1 Real Consumer Spending QoQ Final Q1 1.5% 3.3%
8:30AM May Durables ex-transport (%) May -0.1% 0.2% 0.4%
8:30AM May Durables ex-defense mm (%) May -0.2% 0%
8:30AM Jun/22 Jobless claims 4-wk avg (k) Jun/22 236K 232.75K
8:30AM Jun/22 Jobless Claims (k) Jun/22 233K 236K 238K
8:30AM May Core CapEx (%) May -0.6% 0.1% 0.3%
8:30AM Q1 Core PCE Prices QoQ Final Q1 3.7% 3.6% 2%
8:30AM Jun/15 Continued Claims (ml) Jun/15 1839K 1820K 1828K
8:30AM May Durable goods (%) May 0.1% -0.1% 0.7%
8:30AM Q1 Corporate profits (% ) Q1 -2.7% -1.7% 3.9%
8:30AM Q1 GDP (%) Q1 1.4% 1.4% 3.4%
8:30AM May Retail Inventories Ex Autos MoM Adv May 0% 0.3%
8:30AM Q1 PCE Prices QoQ Final Q1 3.4% 3.3% 1.8%
8:30AM Q1 GDP Final Sales (%) Q1 1.8% 1.7% 3.9%
8:30AM May Wholesale inventories mm (%) May 0.6% 0.1% 0.1%
8:30AM May Goods Trade Balance Adv May $-100.62B $-96B $-99.41B
8:30AM Q1 GDP deflator (%) Q1 3.1% 3.1% 1.7%
10:00AM May Pending Home Sales YoY May -6.6% 2.5% -7.4%
10:00AM May Pending Home Sales (%) May -2.1% 2.5% -7.7%
10:30AM Jun/21 Nat gas-EIA, change bcf Jun/21 52Bcf 53Bcf 71Bcf
10:30AM NY Fed Treasury Purchases TIPS 7.5 to 30 yrs (%) $30 million
11:00AM Jun KC Fed manufacturing Jun -11 -1
11:00AM Jun Kansas Fed Composite Index Jun -8 -2
11:30AM 8-Week Bill Auction 5.260% 5.260%
11:30AM 4-Week Bill Auction 5.270% 5.230%
12:00PM Jun/26 15-Year Mortgage Rate Jun/26 6.16% 6.13%
12:00PM Jun/26 30-Year Mortgage Rate Jun/26 6.86% 6.87%
1:00PM 7-Year Note Auction 4.276% 4.650%
1:00PM 7-Yr Note Auction (bl) 44
4:30PM Jun/26 Central Bank Balance Sheet Jun/26 $7.23T $7.25T
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After a rocky start to the year, things began to improve for rates and the inflation outlook in May. June took the improvement to the next level, but this week didn't affect the bigger picture. Ahead of Wednesday's market closure for Juneteenth, the most relevant economic report was Retail Sales on Tuesday morning.  It came in slightly below forecast and the previous month was revised lowe... READ MORE