Five Minute Maturity – 09/08/2021

Good morning and happy hump day! Wednesday is Mortgage Applications day, and who can forget the -2.4% drubbing from last week? I thought I had until I saw today’s -1.9% re-drubbing! We can’t get a break in the Mortgage Applications department! Here’s some good news:...

Five Minute Maturity – 09/03/2021

Good morning and happy early-close Friday! Eyes were on the all-important jobs report that we got at 7:30am CST. Little more than that has been discussed since the close yesterday. As we didn’t have any competing housing releases scheduled for today, we took a back...

Five Minute Maturity – 09/01/2021

Good morning and happy hump day. We do have scheduled news today in the form of Mortgage Applications for the week ending Aug. 27th and auto sales in Ward’s Total Vehicle Sales for Aug. after the close of the stock market. Ward’s is coming off a 14.75 million...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/30/2021

Good morning and happy Monday! We’re back into housing news today with Pending Home Sales for the month of July. The street was looking for +0.4% after a -1.9% in June and got nowhere close, as today’s print came in down again at -1.8%. As you’ll recall, Pending Home...

Five Minute Maturity – 08/16/2021

Good morning and happy Monday! We’re finally back to some scheduled housing data releases this week. Nothing for today, although the MBA has Mortgage Delinquencies and Mortgage Foreclosures loosely planned for this week, the exact day not specified. In market...