Wednesday brought a full schedule of events and data for the bond market to digest and bonds dictate day to day changes in mortgage rates. The morning's data was perfectly palatable, resulting in modest strength heading into the afternoon's Fed announcement. Contrary to impression given by many news headlines on Fed day, there is rarely any significance to the Fed's actual decision to hike/cut/hold steady at any given meeting by the time the meeting actually happens. Markets will... Read this story
