Bonds Erase Overnight Weakness With Help From Tariff Talk and Data

Bonds Erase Overnight Weakness With Help From Tariff Talk and Data

Once again, bonds were modestly weaker overnight and once again, that weakness is being reversed in early trading. Whereas scapegoats were nowhere to be found yesterday morning, Tuesday has a few. The first move followed a comment from the White House regarding reports that Amazon was considering listing tariff impacts on prices. While this has since been clarified, it caused initial selling in stocks and buying for bonds. The 9:30am NYSE open saw both stocks and bonds improve. Lastly, the 10am econ data (mainly, the weaker job openings number) added modestly to the gains.

Market Movement Recap
08:49 AM

Modestly weaker overnight and little-changed so far this morning.  MBS down an eighth and 10yr up 2.2bps at 4.229

09:50 AM

Additional gains.  10yr down 1bp at 4.198 and MBS unchanged.

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MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 99.73 +0.10 10YR 4.173% -0.034% 4/29/2025 2:59PM EST
Once again, bonds were modestly weaker overnight and once again, that weakness is being reversed in early trading. Whereas scapegoats were nowhere to be found yesterday morning, Tuesday has a few. The first move followed a comment from the White House regarding reports that Amazon was considering listing tariff impacts on prices. While this has since been clarified, it caused initial selling in stocks and buying for bonds. The 9:30am NYSE open saw both stocks and bonds improv...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 6.81% -0.01% 15YR Fixed 6.17% -0.06% 4/29/2025
Mortgage rates ended last week at the lowest levels since April 7th.  The average lender remained at those same levels at the start of business today, but many lenders offered modest improvements as the day progressed. Mortgage lenders prefer to update rates only once per day, but they will make mid-day adjustments if the underlying bond market moves enough.  Fortunately, today's adjustments were toward slightly lower levels. That said, the changes were small eno...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Tuesday, Apr 29
8:30AM Mar Wholesale inventories mm (%) Mar 0.5% 0.7% 0.3%
9:00AM Feb FHFA Home Price Index m/m (%) Feb 0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
9:00AM Feb FHFA Home Prices y/y (%) Feb 3.9% 4.8%
9:00AM Feb CaseShiller 20 mm nsa (%) Feb 0.7% 0.1%
9:00AM Feb Case Shiller Home Prices-20 y/y (% ) Feb 4.5% 4.7% 4.7%
10:00AM Apr CB Consumer Confidence (%) Apr 86.0 87.5 92.9
10:00AM Mar JOLTs Job Quits (ml) Mar 3.332M 3.195M
10:00AM Mar USA JOLTS Job Openings Mar 7.192M 7.48M 7.568M
Wednesday, Apr 30
7:00AM Apr/25 MBA Purchase Index Apr/25 153.4
7:00AM Apr/25 MBA Refi Index Apr/25 673.6
8:15AM Apr ADP jobs (k) Apr 108K 155K
8:30AM Treasury Refunding Announcement (%)
8:30AM Q1 Employment costs (%) Q1 0.9% 0.9%
8:30AM Q1 Core PCE Prices QoQ Final Q1 2.6%
8:30AM Q1 GDP (%) Q1 0.4% 2.4%
8:30AM Q1 GDP deflator (%) Q1 3.1% 2.3%
8:30AM Q1 GDP Final Sales (%) Q1 3.3%
8:30AM 10-Year Note Auction
8:30AM Treasury Refunding Announcement (%)
9:45AM Apr Chicago PMI Apr 45.5 47.6
10:00AM Mar Core PCE Inflation (y/y) (%) Mar 2.6% 2.8%
10:00AM Mar Core PCE (m/m) (%) Mar 0.1% 0.4%
10:00AM Mar Inflation-Adjusted Spending (Consumption) (%) Mar 0.6% 0.4%
10:00AM Mar Pending Home Sales (%) Mar -0.3% 2%
10:30AM Apr/25 Crude Oil Inventory (ml) Apr/25 0.244M
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Please note that this newsletter is fiercely apolitical. There is no judgment on whether any given political development is good or bad. We are only interested in how financial and housing markets are reacting.  Significant market volatility has been all over the news since the April 2nd tariff announcement, but this week went a long way toward restoring a sense of calm. In addition to tar... READ MORE