No Love From October So Far, But The Day's Not Over

No Love From October So Far, But The Day's Not Over

Sometimes we see a distinct shift in momentum on the first day of a new month. This is not one of those times. October 1st picks up where September 30th left off with more yield curve steepening (2yr and 10yr yield getting farther apart). This is a reflection of the sudden shift in economic data expectations last Wednesday combined with the fact that the Fed rate hike outlook has been broadly flat after Wednesday's pop. It's still anyone's game as far as today goes. 10s and MBS are moderately weaker while the 2yr is almost 5bps lower (anchored to those now-resilient Fed Funds Futures). Stronger ISM components (orders, backlogs, prices) caused an initial pop in yields, but we've already recovered 20 minutes later.

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Just Another Bad Day For Bonds

MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 6.0
98.28
+0.26 
10YR TREASURY
5.239
-0.048 
10/1/2026 12:25PM EST
In the last alert: "the market reaction is still playing out." As the "playing out" continues, we're now back to unchanged levels in MBS--several bps stronger than pre-data levels.  Same story in 10yr yields, now up less than 1bp on the day at 5.295.  The 5.34% technical level has brought in bond buyers twice now (once overnight at 3:30am ET and then again just after the 10am mini-sell-off).    READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed
7.54%
-0.06% 
15YR Fixed
7.18%
-0.04% 
10/1/2026
For a few moments this morning, it looked as if rates might buck the recent trend and recover a bit of ground today. The underlying bond market was fairly flat overnight and then managed to improve after this morning's PCE inflation data. But that improvement was short-lived.  Top tier 30yr fixed rates jumped to 7.60%. That's only 0.02% higher than yesterday, but yet another long-term high. As frustrating as it continues to be, there are no convenient scapegoats for ...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Thursday, Oct 01
5:30AM Sep Challenger layoffs (k) Sep 43.281K 52.881K
8:30AM Sep/19 Continued Claims (k) Sep/19 1701K 1730K 1719K
8:30AM Sep/26 Jobless Claims (k) Sep/26 197K 200K 197K
9:05AM Fed Barkin Speech
9:05AM Fed Schmid Speech
9:05AM Fed Collins Speech
9:45AM Sep S&P Global Manuf. PMI Sep 55.9 57.0 53.9
10:00AM Sep ISM Manufacturing Employment Sep 52.7 51.2
10:00AM Sep ISM Mfg Prices Paid Sep 77.9 72.3 71.1
10:00AM Sep ISM Manufacturing PMI Sep 54.5 55 54.6
10:00AM Aug Construction spending (%) Aug 0.9% 0% -0.5%
3:30PM Fed Williams Speech
6:45PM Fed Logan Speech
Friday, Oct 02
8:30AM Sep Average earnings mm (%) Sep 0.3% 0.3%
8:30AM Sep Non Farm Payrolls (k) Sep 90K 162K
8:30AM Sep Participation Rate Sep 61.6%
8:30AM Sep Unemployment rate mm (%) Sep 4.1% 4.1%
10:00AM Aug Factory orders mm (%) Aug 0.1% 0.9%
10:00AM Fed Logan Speech
2:00PM Sep Total Vehicle Sales (ml) Sep 16.6M 16.8M