Nice Recovery After JOLTS Data and Treasury Auction

Nice Recovery After JOLTS Data and Treasury Auction

If bond yields fall a few bps after having risen about 30 times as much, is it still a rally?  Who knows, but that's what happened this afternoon.  Yields actually began the day higher and continued to weaken ahead of the JOLTS data and Treasury auction.  Both events proved to be beneficial, but it was only after making it trough the 1pm auction of 7yr Treasuries that the buying demand stuck around long enough to get MBS and Treasuries into positive territory on the day.  As our ongoing lock/float guidance suggests, periodic victories will happen in this environment.  The bigger victories depend on bigger data and events, but Tuesday was nonetheless "nice" if for no other reason than to prove bonds are still capable of rallying when there's justification. 

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Nice Recovery After JOLTS and Treasury Auction

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 98.99 -0.30 10YR 4.301% +0.046% 10/30/2024 5:00PM EST
7yr Treasury Auction 4.215 vs 4.235 f'cast bid to cover 2.74x vs 2.54x avg primer on auction jargon Bonds were near their weakest levels of the day with 10yr yields pushing over 4.33% ahead of the 7yr Treasury auction.  Unlike yesterday's 2 and 5yr auctions, this one was met with decidedly stronger demand, even if it required higher yields to generate that demand.   The bid-to-cover at 2.74x vs 2.54x is the highest in several years a...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 7.02% -0.01% 15YR Fixed 6.50% +0.01% 10/30/2024
Mortgage rates tend to be updated only once per day.  Lenders set rates based on trading levels in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) which are essentially bonds that are tied to cash flows from groups of mortgages.  MBS move throughout the day much the same way that US Treasuries do.  If they move enough, lenders can issue mid-day changes to the rates they published earlier in the day. Today began with Treasury yields in higher territory and MBS in weaker ter...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Wednesday, Oct 30
7:00AM Oct/25 MBA 30-yr mortgage rate (%) Oct/25 6.73% 6.52%
7:00AM Oct/25 MBA Mortgage Applications Oct/25 -0.1% -6.7%
7:00AM Oct/25 Mortgage Market Index Oct/25 214.5 214.8
7:00AM Oct/25 MBA Refi Index Oct/25 630.0 672.6
7:00AM Oct/25 MBA Purchase Index Oct/25 137.8 131.3
8:15AM Oct ADP jobs (k) Oct 233K 115K 143K
8:30AM Treasury Refunding Announcement (%)
8:30AM Q3 Core PCE Prices QoQ Final Q3 2.2% 2.1% 2.8%
8:30AM Q3 Real Consumer Spending QoQ Final Q3 3.7% 2.8%
8:30AM Q3 PCE Prices QoQ Final Q3 1.5% 2.7% 2.5%
8:30AM Q3 GDP Final Sales (%) Q3 3% 1.9%
8:30AM Q3 GDP deflator (%) Q3 1.8% 1.9% 2.5%
8:30AM Q3 GDP (%) Q3 2.8% 3% 3%
10:00AM Sep Pending Home Sales YoY Sep 2.6% -3%
10:00AM Sep Pending Home Sales (%) Sep 7.4% 1.1% 0.6%
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Heating Oil Stocks Change Oct/25 0.571M -0.28M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Crude Oil Imports Change Oct/25 -0.605M 0.913M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Gasoline Stocks Change Oct/25 -2.707M 0.6M 0.878M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Cushing Crude Oil Stocks Change Oct/25 0.681M -0.346M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Distillate Fuel Production Change Oct/25 -0.148M 0.257M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Gasoline Production Change Oct/25 -0.259M 0.666M
10:30AM Oct/25 Crude Oil Inventory (ml) Oct/25 -0.515M 2.3M 5.474M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Distillate Stocks Change Oct/25 -0.977M -1.59M -1.14M
10:30AM Oct/25 EIA Refinery Crude Runs Change Oct/25 -0.031M 0.329M
11:30AM 17-Week Bill Auction (%) 4.430% 4.445%
Thursday, Oct 31
7:30AM Oct Challenger layoffs (k) Oct 72.821K
8:30AM Q3 Employment costs (%) Q3 0.9% 0.9%
8:30AM Oct/19 Continued Claims (ml) Oct/19 1890K 1897K
8:30AM Q3 Employment Benefits qq (%) Q3 1%
8:30AM Sep Core PCE Inflation (y/y) (%) Sep 2.6% 2.7%
8:30AM Q3 Employment Wages qq (%) Q3 0.9%
8:30AM Sep Core PCE (m/m) (%) Sep 0.3% 0.1%
8:30AM Oct/26 Jobless claims 4-wk avg (k) Oct/26 238.5K
8:30AM Sep Personal Income (%) Sep 0.3% 0.2%
8:30AM Oct/26 Jobless Claims (k) Oct/26 230K 227K
8:30AM Sep Inflation-Adjusted Spending (Consumption) (%) Sep 0.4% 0.2%
8:30AM Sep PCE (y/y) (%) Sep 2.1% 2.2%
8:30AM Sep PCE price index mm (%) Sep 0.2% 0.1%
9:45AM Oct Chicago PMI Oct 47 46.6
10:30AM Oct/25 Nat gas-EIA, change bcf Oct/25 79Bcf 80Bcf
11:30AM 4-Week Bill Auction 4.650%
11:30AM 8-Week Bill Auction 4.590%
12:00PM Oct/30 30-Year Mortgage Rate Oct/30 6.54%
12:00PM Oct/30 15-Year Mortgage Rate Oct/30 5.71%
4:30PM Oct/30 Central Bank Balance Sheet Oct/30 $7.03T
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