Bonds Doing What Bonds Do

Bonds Doing What Bonds Do

Another week, another chance for bonds to do the only thing it seems like they know how to do recently: sell off.  It actually didn't look like a foregone conclusion this morning.  Bonds were only slightly weaker overnight and managed to move into positive territory in the first hour and a half of domestic trading.  After that, the selling was consistent and directional for the rest of the AM hours.  A combination of Treasury auction indigestion and ongoing pre-election positioning can broadly be blamed, but without the normal level of correlation between singular big ticket data releases or news headlines and market movement, we'd take most assessments with a grain of salt when it comes to "what's moving markets." 

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Bonds Doing What Bonds Do

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 99.27 +0.29 10YR 4.255% -0.027% 10/29/2024 5:00PM EST
MBS have lost more than an eighth of a point since the last alert.  They're now down a quarter point on the day and almost 3/8ths from the AM highs. This makes negative reprices increasingly likely for many lenders. 10yr yields are quickly up 5bps to 4.293.   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 7.03% +0.03% 15YR Fixed 6.49% +0.02% 10/29/2024
It's no mystery that mortgage rates have had a terrible October.  As of last Friday, the average lender's top tier 30yr fixed rates were up to 6.90--an increase of more than 0.625% this month.  Today's 0.10% increase brings the rate index up to 7.0% exactly which is the highest we've seen since July 10th. The relatively larger size of today's jump is partly due to the timing of bond market weakness last Friday.  Mortgage rates are based on bonds and mortgag...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Monday, Oct 28
10:30AM Oct Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index Oct -3.0 -9.0
11:30AM 6-Month Bill Auction 4.325% 4.310%
11:30AM 2-Year Note Auction 4.130% 3.520%
11:30AM 2-Yr Note Auction (bl) 69
11:30AM 26-Week Bill Auction (bl) 72
1:00PM 26-Week Bill Auction (bl) 81
1:00PM 3-Month Bill Auction 4.49% 4.51%
1:00PM 5-Year Note Auction 4.138% 3.519%
1:00PM 5-Yr Note Auction (bl) 70
3:00PM Treasury Refunding Financing Estimates (%)
Tuesday, Oct 29
8:30AM Sep Goods Trade Balance Adv Sep $-108.23B $-96.1B $-94.26B
8:30AM Sep Wholesale inventories mm (%) Sep -0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
8:30AM Sep Retail Inventories Ex Autos MoM Adv Sep 0.1% 0.5%
8:55AM Oct/26 Redbook yy (%) Oct/26 5.6% 4.6%
9:00AM Aug House Price Index Aug 427.0 425.2
9:00AM Aug FHFA Home Prices y/y (%) Aug 4.2% 4.5%
9:00AM Aug CaseShiller 20 mm nsa (%) Aug -0.3% 0%
9:00AM Aug Case Shiller Home Prices-20 y/y (% ) Aug 5.2% 5.1% 5.9%
9:00AM Aug FHFA Home Price Index m/m (%) Aug 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
10:00AM Oct CB Consumer Confidence (%) Oct 108.7 99.5 98.7
10:00AM Sep JOLTs Job Quits Sep 3.071M 3.084M
10:00AM Sep USA JOLTS Job Openings Sep 7.443M 7.99M 8.04M
10:30AM Oct Dallas Fed Services Index Oct 2.0 -2.6
10:30AM Oct Dallas Fed Services Revenues Index Oct 9.2 10.1
11:30AM 26-Week Bill Auction (bl) 80
11:30AM 52-Week Bill Auction 4.100% 3.780%
11:30AM 52-Week Bill Auction (bl) 48
11:30AM 42-Day Bill Auction (%) 4.630% 4.650%
1:00PM 2-Year FRN Auction (%) 0.205% 0.261%
1:00PM 7-Year Note Auction 4.215% 3.668%
1:00PM 2-Yr Note Auction (bl) 30
1:00PM 7-Yr Note Auction (bl) 44
4:30PM Oct/25 API weekly crude stocks (ml) Oct/25 -0.573M 2.3M 1.643M
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Last week's newsletter warned that it was time to start thinking about incredibly high volatility potential due to events in the first few days of November. But as far as interest rates are concerned, the volatility is already here. Rates jumped sharply higher to start the new week in a move that still has market watchers scratching their heads.  Some analysts pointed to election odds as a... READ MORE