Bill Bodnar of The Mortgage Market Guide (MMG) discusses how The Fed is pushing everything higher except rates. He also discusses the coronavirus, stocks have gone higher, all-time closing low yields on 10-year notes, jobs, and supersized auctions from the Treasury.

Black Knight has unveiled a $1.8 billion agreement to purchase Optimal Blue, an online mortgage marketplace that links mortgage originators to secondary investors. So reports the Jacksonville (Fla.) Daily Record.

The Trump administration has been hit with another setback in its effort to avoid prosecuting a whistleblower claim against Academy Mortgage. So report Law360 and Bloomberg Law.