Mortgage Rates Little-Changed to Start Holiday-Shortened Week
Random, Inconsequential Volatility Driven by Holiday Week Trading Conditions
No sooner did we finish reading this morning's warning about the ill effects of illiquidity than the market began offering examples. For their part, Treasuries experienced a slightly more linear rally between 7:50am and 9:30am with the last 15 minutes being the sharpest. MBS are much less liquid than Treasuries in general, so they experienced bigger pops and drops depending on the moments in question. By the afternoon hours, both had settled fairly close to unchanged (Treasuries a hair stronger and MBS a hair weaker), but neither had done anything memorable.&nb
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