What's Up With The Paradoxical CPI Reaction?

What's Up With The Paradoxical CPI Reaction?

Heading into today's data, we knew there was a possibility of two separate reactions--one for the top line CPI numbers and one for a deeper look at the internal components. Those internals show that tariffs are having an impact even though it was a smaller impact than many forecasters were expecting. Bonds didn't seem to care at first. When a new glut of trades came online at the 9:30am NYSE open, that changed.  Both stocks and bonds sold off sharply starting at 9:30am and this move looks far more convincing that the initial rally.

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08:32 AM

Slightly stronger after PPI.  MBS up 3 ticks (.09) and 10yr down 2.4bps at 4.46

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What's Up With The Paradoxical CPI Reaction?

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 99.09 +0.17 10YR 4.450% -0.034% 7/16/2025 1:53PM EST
Lenders who priced after the initial selling at 9:30am were dealing with MBS that were roughly unchanged on the day.  Since then, we've fallen another 6 ticks (.19)--more than enough for a jumpier lender to consider a negative reprice. 10yr yields are up 4.9bps at 4.484.   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 6.83% -0.02% 15YR Fixed 6.08% +0.01% 7/16/2025
Mortgage rates are based on bonds and bonds don't like inflation.  When inflation reports are higher than the market expected, rates tend to rise, all other things being equal.   But today's inflation numbers were a bit lower than the median forecast. This scenario is typically more likely to push rates lower.  Indeed, in the first hour following today's Consumer Price Index (CPI) release, bond trading implied lower rates.  Then things changed.&n...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Wednesday, Jul 16
12:00AM Roll Date - UMBS 15YR, Ginnie Mae 15YR
7:00AM Jul/11 MBA Refi Index Jul/11 767.6 829.3
7:00AM Jul/11 MBA Purchase Index Jul/11 159.6 180.9
8:30AM Jun Producer Prices (%) Jun 0% 0.2% 0.1%
8:30AM Jun Core Producer Prices MM (%) Jun 0% 0.2% 0.1%
8:30AM Jun Core Producer Prices YY (%) Jun 2.6% 2.7% 3%
9:15AM Jun Industrial Production (%) Jun 0.3% 0.1% -0.2%
9:15AM Fed Hammack Speech
10:00AM Fed Barr Speech
10:30AM Jul/11 Crude Oil Inventory (ml) Jul/11 -3.859M -0.9M 7.07M
2:00PM Fed Beige Book
6:30PM Fed Williams Speech
Thursday, Jul 17
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales (%) Jun 0.1% -0.9%
8:30AM Jul/12 Jobless Claims (k) Jul/12 235K 227K
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales (ex-autos) (%) Jun 0.3% -0.3%
8:30AM Jul Philly Fed Business Index Jul -1 -4.0
8:30AM Jul/05 Continued Claims (ml) Jul/05 1970K 1965K
8:30AM Jun Import prices mm (%) Jun 0.3% 0%
8:30AM Jun Export prices mm (%) Jun 0% -0.9%
8:30AM Jul Philly Fed Prices Paid Jul 41.40
8:30AM Jun Retail Sales Control Group MoM Jun 0.3% 0.4%
10:00AM May Business Inventories (% ) May 0% 0%
10:00AM Jul NAHB housing market indx Jul 33 32
10:00AM Fed Kugler Speech
1:30PM Fed Cook Speech
6:30PM Fed Waller Speech
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Mortgage rates partied hard for most of June and into the middle of last week--right up until stronger economic data killed the vibe. The resulting bounce in rates carried momentum through to the beginning of this week, but from there on out, things were broadly sideways.  That's not too surprising considering the lack of virtually any major economic data this week. Such data is one of the... READ MORE