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Pricing on the mortgage bond market is still hovering at multi-year highs, keeping interest rates at multi-year lows.  The ISM Index published today shows that the manufacturing sector is more robust than anticipated.  All the talk of bringing jobs back to the U.S. has pushed the Index into positive territory this month I guess.  Speaking of jobs, the BLS Jobs Report will be published this Friday. The rest of the economic indicators released this week will merely be foreshadowing the mack daddy announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding the unemployment rate, job creation, hourly earnings, and average hours worked.