US MBA mortgage applications fell -1.8% in the week ended October 10, with the purchase mortgage sub-index down -2.7% and the refinancing mortgage sub-index down -1.0%. The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell -1 bp to 6.42% from 6.43% in the prior week.Today's private survey news was supportive of stocks after the Oct Empire manufacturing survey general business conditions index rose +19.4 to 10.7, stronger than expectations of -1.8.The escalation of trade tensions between the US and China, along with ...