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Another Week, Another Oil Price Pivot

Another Week, Another Oil Price Pivot

Recent experience suggests the safest assumption about oil prices and bond yields is that they will pop and drop with reasonable regularity. In other words, lower prices/yields for a few days following friendly war-related headlines tend to give way to unfriendly headlines and a market reversal. Wash, rinse, repeat. The new week is starting off with unfriendly news and higher oil/yields. There's not much sense in attempting to dig any deeper on market analysis so far today.

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Not The Rally We Expected, But The Rally We Got

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.5
99.25
-0.29 
10YR TREASURY
4.699
+0.052 
8/10/2026 12:59PM EST
Bonds have been gradually selling off all morning, but until now, not too much from rate sheet print times. If we use 9:30am as a baseline, 5.5 coupons are now down exactly an eighth of a point. As such, some of the jumpiest/earliest lenders could be close to considering negative reprices.    READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed
6.76%
+0.02% 
15YR Fixed
6.27%
+0.02% 
8/10/2026
Mortgage rates dropped moderately today after the latest jobs report showed much lower jobs created than expected. The monthly jobs report is one of the most--if not THE most--important pieces of economic data to the rate market on any given month. If the numbers are close to forecasts, there isn't always a big reaction. Today's numbers were quite far from forecasts for some parts of the report, but slightly offset by others. The net effect was a decent improvement in th...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Monday, Aug 10
3:00PM Fed Hammack Speech
Tuesday, Aug 11
6:00AM Jul NFIB Business Optimism Index Jul 97.8 97.4
8:15AM ADP Employment Change Weekly 15.0K
9:20AM NY Fed Bill Purchases 1 to 4 months (%) $5.179 billion
10:00AM Jul Existing home sales (ml) Jul 4.04M 4.09M
10:00AM Jul Exist. home sales % chg (%) Jul -2.4%
11:30AM 6-Week Bill Auction (%) 3.640%
1:00PM 3-Yr Note Auction (bl) 58
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