Over Before it Began

Over Before it Began

Monday proved to be a boring trading day despite the moderately big sell-off. Yields actually didn't move much during the domestic session. In fact, they didn't move during the overnight session either. Because the day's market-moving news happened on Sunday before trading began, it was instantly priced in at the open, and the rest of the day was spent drifting sideways to slightly weaker. Bonds ultimately underperformed their prevailing correlation with oil prices. We're not reading anything into this--especially in light of the Treasury auction cycle possibly adding some concessionary weakness. 

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MBS & Treasury Markets
UMBS 5.0
98.57
-0.33  
10YR TREASURY
4.403
+0.048  
5/11/2026 2:15PM EST
Bonds have been selling off slowly and steadily this morning, but the past few minutes have seen a modest acceleration. 10yr yields are up 5bps at the highs of the day (4.405). MBS are down 3/8ths on the day with just over an eighth of a point of that drop happening after the AM highs. Because those highs correspond with many lenders' rate sheet print times, this introduces some negative reprice risk.   READ MORE
Today's Mortgage Rates
30YR Fixed
6.49%
+0.07%  
15YR Fixed
6.00%
+0.01%  
5/11/2026
Last week was decidedly stronger for mortgage rates as they either held steady or moved lower on 5 out of 5 days. All told, it was a 0.14% drop from the previous week in terms of the average top-tier 30yr fixed rate.  The new week is starting out in opposite fashion with rates moving up 0.07% today alone. This follows news over the weekend that Trump rejected Iran's counterproposal to end the war. In general, the longer the war continues, the higher oil prices will r...   READ MORE
Economic Calendar
Time Event Period Actual Forecast Prior
Monday, May 11
10:00AM Apr Exist. home sales % chg (%) Apr 0.2% -3.6%
10:00AM Apr Existing home sales (ml) Apr 4.02M 4.05M 3.98M
10:20AM NY Fed Bill Purchases 1 to 4 months (%) $7.587 billion
1:00PM 3-Yr Note Auction (bl) 58
Tuesday, May 12
12:00AM Roll Date - UMBS 30YR
3:15AM Fed Williams Speech
6:00AM Apr NFIB Business Optimism Index Apr 96.1 95.8
8:15AM ADP Employment Change Weekly 39.25K
8:30AM Apr y/y Headline CPI (%) Apr 3.7% 3.3%
8:30AM Apr m/m Headline CPI (%) Apr 0.6% 0.9%
8:30AM Apr y/y CORE CPI (%) Apr 2.7% 2.6%
8:30AM Apr m/m CORE CPI (%) Apr 0.4% 0.2%
11:30AM 6-Week Bill Auction (%) 3.630%
12:00PM WASDE Report (%)
1:00PM Fed Goolsbee Speech
1:00PM 10-yr Note Auction (bl) 42
2:00PM Apr Federal budget (bl) Apr $37.5B $-164.1B