Fairly Steady After Glut of Low-Consequence Data

Fairly Steady After Glut of Low-Consequence Data

This morning's economic calendar only looks robust on paper.  While quarterly GDP results in numerous line items, they're not as important as they might sound. For instance, PCE prices are an important inflation index, but the version released with GDP applies to Q2 and is thus just revising already-released PCE data. Additionally, it is not capturing any of the July inflation that will be reported with tomorrow's monthly PCE.  The same "stale" factor applies to everything in today's GDP release (this is why GDP revisions don't have nearly as much market movement potential as an initial release, which we won't get until October). Jobless Claims data rarely has a big impact and today is no exception. While Continued Claims recovered slightly, it wasn't a big enough bounce to be significant.

Market Movement Recap
09:29 AM

Flat overnight and little changed since data.  MBS down 1 tick (.03) and 10yr up less than half a bp at 4.24

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Steady Gains After Slightly Weaker Start

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5 100.56 +0.02 10YR 4.210% -0.025% 8/28/2025 3:13PM EST
This morning's economic calendar only looks robust on paper.  While quarterly GDP results in numerous line items, they're not as important as they might sound. For instance, PCE prices are an important inflation index, but the version released with GDP applies to Q2 and is thus just revising already-released PCE data. Additionally, it is not capturing any of the July inflation that will be reported with tomorrow's monthly PCE.  The same "stale" factor applies to eve...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 6.50% -0.01% 15YR Fixed 5.86% -0.02% 8/28/2025
It continues to be the case that day-to-day changes in average mortgage rates are very small. Today was no exception in that regard. Nonetheless, today represents a technical "record low" for 2025 with average rates edging just slightly lower than those seen on August 22nd and 26th. Our index (which tracks top tier, conventional 30yr fixed rates for ideal scenarios) is now 6.51%, the lowest it's been since October 3rd 2024 when it was 6.26%. Virtually all of the recent ...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Thursday, Aug 28
8:30AM Q2 Corporate profits (% ) Q2 2% -3.3%
8:30AM Aug/16 Continued Claims (k) Aug/16 1954K 1970K 1972K
8:30AM Q2 GDP Final Sales (%) Q2 6.8% 6.3% -3.1%
8:30AM Q2 GDP deflator (%) Q2 2% 2% 3.8%
8:30AM Q2 Core PCE Prices QoQ Final Q2 2.5% 2.6% 3.5%
8:30AM Q2 GDP (%) Q2 3.3% 3.1% -0.5%
8:30AM Aug/23 Jobless Claims (k) Aug/23 229K 230K 235K
10:00AM Jul Pending Home Sales (%) Jul -0.4% -0.1% -0.8%
1:00PM 7-Yr Note Auction (bl) 44
6:00PM Fed Waller Speech
Friday, Aug 29
8:30AM Jul Personal Income (%) Jul 0.4% 0.3%
8:30AM Jul Inflation-Adjusted Spending (Consumption) (%) Jul 0.5% 0.3%
8:30AM Jul Wholesale inventories mm (%) Jul 0.2% 0.1%
8:30AM Jul Core PCE Inflation (y/y) (%) Jul 2.9% 2.8%
8:30AM Jul Core PCE (m/m) (%) Jul 0.3% 0.3%
9:45AM Aug Chicago PMI Aug 46 47.1
10:00AM Aug Consumer Sentiment (ip) Aug 58.6 61.7
10:00AM Aug Sentiment: 5y Inflation (%) Aug 3.9% 3.4%
10:00AM Aug Sentiment: 1y Inflation (%) Aug 4.9% 4.5%
10:00AM Aug U Mich conditions Aug 60.9 68.0
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If you read nothing else below, read this: people are talking about stronger odds of a Fed rate cut in September. Some people assume this means mortgage rates would move lower after that potential rate cut.  Those people are wrong, and there is  memorable evidence  from late 2024 when mortgage rates moved quickly higher from long term lows mere days after the Fed's September rate cu... READ MORE