Mortgage Rates Briefly Hit 4 Month Lows

Winning Streak Finally Ends, But it Could Have Been Worse Take yesterday out of the equation and today's closing levels are better than any other day since early December.  That's not a bad way to conclude 9 days in a row of bonds making intraday improvements. In the absence of data, traders took cues from equities and technicals. On the technical note, 10yr yields bounced at 4.11 right at the start of the overnight session and again in the 10am hour.  Yields retraced most of yesterday afternoon's rally in concert with a stock market bounce.  Days like today become much more likely than not when bonds stretch winning streaks