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"Bernanke on Housing's Role in Recovery; Mortgage Rates Battle Back"
Published: 2/10/2012
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  • MBS RECAP: 2/10/2012

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    February 10 2012, 4:22 PM
    As we said earlier in the day, lenders are normally more conservative with positive reprices around the MBS Settlement cycle, not to mention the same is also true for Friday afternoons. So all we can really say is that the shape of MBS trading today is...

  • MBS MID-DAY: 2/10/2012

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    February 10 2012, 11:22 AM
    Things have been fairly calm so far this morning, especially considering the raft of overnight and early morning headlines indicating that one of Greece's political party leaders will not vote to approve the bailout package. 10yr yields opened about...

  • The Day Ahead: Deja Vu All Over Again For Greece

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    by Matthew Graham on February 10 2012, 7:47 AM
    How many times must we go through the same motions surrounding the various bailout/solvency/reform issues in Greece? Granted, things are just slightly different each time, but the aspects of "seemingly urgent decisions required" as well as "certain deadlines...

  • MBS RECAP: 2/9/2012

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    February 09 2012, 4:22 PM
    Volume surged briefly following the 1pm 30yr Bond Auction, but has since died down. In the process, Treasury yields and MBS prices experienced a bit of volatility, but that now seems to be resolving itself in a favorable manner. Fannie 3.5 MBS are down...

  • MBS And Treasuries Off Their Lows. Long Term Trends In Play

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    by Matthew Graham on February 09 2012, 2:27 PM
    Latest Alert From MBS Live: Treasuries, MBS Attempting to Turn a Corner Following 30yr Auction - 2:06PM Volume surged briefly following the 1pm 30yr Bond Auction, but has since died down. In the process, Treasury yields and MBS prices experienced a bit...

  • MBS MID-DAY: 2/9/2012

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    February 09 2012, 11:17 AM
    The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that December 2011 sales of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, were $413.1 billion...

  • The Day Ahead: Digesting Greek Headlines and Week's Last Auction

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    by Matthew Graham on February 09 2012, 8:07 AM
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As it turns out, the reason we’d heard about the meeting of Greek officials and the troika starting earlier in the day yestersday while never hearing anything else before domestic markets closed, was...

  • MBS RECAP: 2/8/2012

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    February 08 2012, 4:17 PM
    Bond markets have reacted in a generally positive way to today's 10yr note auction. The high-yield awarded was 1.1 bps lower than "when-issued" yields just before the release (this is bond-market friendly as it means that yields were slightly...

  • Mortgage Rates Flat to Slightly Improved After Auction, Greece News

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    by Matthew Graham on February 08 2012, 3:10 PM
    For several sessions in a row, Mortgages Rates have moved in the opposite direction from the previous session, although even the bigger examples of these movements haven't been enough to nudge 3.875% out of the "best-execution" position. The same back...

  • Bond Markets Improve Following 10yr Auction and Fed Selling

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    by Matthew Graham on February 08 2012, 2:01 PM
    After the 10yr auction, production MBS and the long end of the yield curve didn't move much at first. But it now seems that some additional bid for the 10yr was on hold until after the Fed's Scheduled selling that ended at 2pm. As that was wrapping up...

  • MBS MID-DAY: 2/8/2012

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    February 08 2012, 11:17 AM
    News that the ECB would turn over it's Greek bond holdings to the EFSF in exchange for EFSF bonds of higher amounts, provides another potential reason that yesterday’s planned meeting among Greek leaders to approve the terms of the bailout was postponed...

  • Day Ahead: 10yr Auction And Another Probable Greek Deadline Miss

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    by Matthew Graham on February 08 2012, 8:06 AM
    The theme of light economic data continues on Wednesday with MBA Mortgage Apps being the only item of note. Even then, it's only notable due to it's pertinence to our industry and is not a market mover. Both the refi and purchase indexes snapped 3 week...

  • MBS RECAP: 2/7/2012

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    February 07 2012, 4:17 PM
    Novembers expansion of total Consumer Credit was revised to +$20.38 bln, very close to the original print. Today's report for December shows only a slight decrease in the pace to $19.31 bln. Economists had been expecting a bigger contraction to $7...

  • MBS and Treasuries Battling Back After 3yr Auction, Greece News

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    by Matthew Graham on February 07 2012, 2:31 PM
    Bond markets had already been trending into negative territory leading up to today's 3yr auction, but took a turn for the worse afterwards with some help from a few newswires out of Greece. All that is detailed in the following alert from MBS Live. 3...

  • MBS MID-DAY: 2/7/2012

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    February 07 2012, 11:17 AM
    10yr benchmarks are on the verge of a fairly meaningful technical breakout, at least as far as the yields themselves are concerned. Volume, on the other hand, while much higher than yesterday is not high enough to do justice to the very important horizontal...
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