Bonds Find Some Solace in Warsh Despite a Bit More Selling

Bonds Find Some Solace in Warsh Despite a Bit More Selling

The past 2 days have been rough for the bond market--nothing catastrophic, but "brisk" in terms of unexpected selling pressure.  To be fair, buying/selling pressure is never truly expected (otherwise, why wait to trade it?), and higher volatility was definitely a risk surrounding quarter-end and the data calendar. Today could have been worse, but the market found some solace in this morning's Warsh comments the ECB SINTRA conference. Warsh stuck to the "no forward guidance" script but managed to offer some in a roundabout way by saying inflation risks have come down and that he was open to different views on the Fed's balance sheet size. While not true forward guidance, it was a net-dovish message that the market reacted to. Shorter-term debt did best, but 10yr yields are ending up about 2bps lower than they were before Warsh.

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Bonds Find Some Solace in Warsh

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.0
97.99
-0.05 
10YR TREASURY
4.494
+0.014 
7/2/2026 5:39AM EST
Bonds hit their highs just after 10am this morning and have been selling slowly since then. The last few minutes bring 5.0 UMBS down 5 ticks (.16) versus those highs. The catch is that "just after 10am" is on the later side of the normal morning price window for lenders.  Bottom line: lenders who printed their first rate sheet well after 10am could technically justify a small reprice.  Lenders who priced at 10am (or earlier) still haven't seen meaningful deterior...   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed
6.65%
+0.05% 
15YR Fixed
6.19%
+0.04% 
7/1/2026
In a real sense, today's rate update is more of an addendum to yesterday's rate update. Yesterday afternoon saw heavy, continued selling in the bond market amid a flood of trading associated with the end of the quarter. Because mortgage rates are directly based on the bond market, this resulted in multiple lenders raising rates late in the day (after yesterday's update).  Today has been much calmer by comparison with bonds holding fairly close to yesterday's latest l...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
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10:00AM May Factory orders mm (%) May -1.8% 4.8%
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