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Mortgage rates bounced around a tight range for most of the week. There wasn't much in the way of news to motivate movement in the first three days of the week. Although we did get several key earnings releases, the economics calendar was essential empty and the market's general tone reflected...
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My headline yesterday was: Mortgage Rates Fully Recover from Recent Uptick. Energy Building in Benchmarks. This is what I said: Over the past two days benchmark Treasury yields and MBS prices have barely budged from a tight trading range. Trading has been very slow as market participants have been unmotivated...
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Mortgage rates improved a few basis points yesterday. Lenders were somewhat subdued in passing along interest rate improvements though. This is a function of a few reasons. First, mortgage-backed securities prices have held to a tight range over the course of the week. The second reason is a bit more...
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Although the market briefly tested the reliability of our lock/float strategy on Monday ("lock at the price highs, float at the price lows"), mortgage-backed security prices are returning to the confines of our comfort zone...also known as "THE RANGE". Following the seemingly bottomless...