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Bonds Recover With Oil, But Not Completely

Bonds Recover With Oil, But Not Completely

Ever since bottoming out together on the morning of April 17th, bond yields and oil prices have been moving higher together.  The early overnight trading hours may have witnessed a bit of a "blow-off top" (fancy words that basically mean markets reversed course simply because they'd gone too high, too fast). In other words, there wasn't an overt reason for the reversal in the news cycle. That said, there arguably wasn't sufficient justification for the last leg of the rate/oil spike seen yesterday. Econ data didn't necessarily drive any of the movement, but with PCE falling right in line with expectations, it didn't get in the way. Perhaps more impressive is that bonds didn't see any selling pressure from the lowest jobless claims reading in more than 3 years.

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Bonds Recover With Oil, But Not Completely

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.0 98.42 +0.07 10YR 4.422% -0.009% 4/29/2026 8:14PM EST
From an analytical standpoint, it's hard to offer new and interesting insights when the order of any given day is simply to observe broad war-related sentiment via oil prices.  From there, if bonds are diverging, we have a few things to discuss, but if bond yields are following, the case is closed. Today's case is mostly closed as the correlation is mostly there. The only minor divergence arrived after the boatload of AM econ data. It wasn't much of a move, but it w...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed 6.45% -0.05% 15YR Fixed 6.01% -0.02% 4/30/2026
Mortgage rates spiked on Wednesday (yesterday) after reports suggested a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. As has been the case for most of the past 2 months, interest rate movement was clearly correlated with oil prices. Now today, both are moving back in the other direction though not for reasons that are as obvious as yesterday's. The rally began just after 2am ET with both oil prices and bond yields dropping in concert. Lower bond yields mean lower rates, all...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Thursday, Apr 30
8:30AM Apr/25 Jobless Claims (k) Apr/25 189K 215K 214K
8:30AM Apr/18 Continued Claims (k) Apr/18 1785K 1820K 1821K
8:30AM Mar Core PCE (m/m) (%) Mar 0.3% 0.3% 0.4%
8:30AM Mar PCE (y/y) (%) Mar 3.5% 3.5% 2.8%
8:30AM Q1 Employment costs (%) Q1 0.9% 0.8% 0.7%
8:30AM Q1 GDP Final Sales (%) Q1 1.6% 0.3%
8:30AM Mar Core PCE (y/y) (%) Mar 3.2% 3.2% 3%
8:30AM Q1 PCE Prices (Q/Q) Q1 4.5% 2.9%
8:30AM Q1 GDP (%) Q1 2.0% 2.3% 0.5%
8:30AM Q1 Core PCE Prices QoQ Q1 4.3% 4.1% 2.7%
8:30AM Mar PCE prices (m/m) (%) Mar 0.7% 0.7% 0.4%
9:45AM Apr Chicago PMI Apr 49.2 53 52.8
10:00AM Feb CB Leading Index MoM (%) Feb 0.3% -0.1% -0.1%
10:00AM Mar CB Leading Index MoM (%) Mar -0.6% 0.3%
Friday, May 01
9:45AM Apr S&P Global Manuf. PMI Apr 54.0 52.3
10:00AM Apr ISM Manufacturing PMI Apr 53 52.7
10:00AM Apr ISM Mfg Prices Paid Apr 80 78.3
10:00AM Apr ISM Manufacturing Employment Apr 49 48.7
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