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What Might Move Mortgage Rates This Week?

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by Victor Burek on September 14 2009, 10:15 AM

Mortgage rates continue to hold below 5% despite some better than expected economic data last week. As a general rule, better than expected economic data usually leads to higher mortgage rates while worse than expected data improves rates (that has...
Mortgage Rates Holding Below 5.00%

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by Victor Burek on September 11 2009, 10:06 AM

Despite a rally in stocks, mortgage backed securities managed to post nice gains yesterday after a stronger than expected 30 year bond auction. It is not very common to see stocks and bonds both rally on the same day especially when stocks tested their...
Mortgage Rates Fall After Treasury Auction

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by Victor Burek on September 10 2009, 10:00 AM

A lack of economic data combined with generally optimistic actions in the stock market kept mortgage-backed securities mostly unchanged yesterday morning, however, following a strong 10 yr TSY note auction, mortgage rates made modest improvements in the...
Mortgage Rates Still Holding Range

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by Victor Burek on September 09 2009, 9:48 AM

Although vacations are over in Washington and the summer session has ended on Wall Street, a slow economic calendar combined with a holiday hangover kept trading activity light yesterday. Mortgage rates were mostly unchanged....AGAIN. I don't want...
Mortgage Rates Remain Range Bound

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by Victor Burek on September 08 2009, 10:41 AM

Mortgage rates moved slightly higher on Friday following the release of the Employment Situation report. The increase was however not huge as the ever so important jobs report was unable to spark any major shifts. All in all, mortgage rates were...
Mortgage Rates Higher After Jobs Data

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by Victor Burek on September 04 2009, 10:22 AM

Mortgage backed securities had a calm day yesterday, never straying far from opening levels, posting inconsequential gains by close. You could say the market was in "wait and see" mode ahead of the Employment Situation report--one of the most...
Mortgage Rates Still Stuck Near Summer Lows

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by Victor Burek on September 03 2009, 10:16 AM

Mortgage Rates are still holding steady near summer lows after prices of mortgage backed securities rallied to summer highs yesterday. While the appreciations in the secondary mortgage market were quite noticeable and lenders republished rate sheets for...
Mortgage Rates Holding Near Summer Lows

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by Victor Burek on September 02 2009, 10:43 AM

Much like Monday, early morning weakness in the fixed income sector was followed by a rally later in the day in spite of better than expected economic data. Helping spark the rally in mortgage backed securities yesterday was a large sell off in equities...
Mortgage Rates Benefit From Stock Selloff

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by Victor Burek on September 01 2009, 10:36 AM

Many mortgage lenders began yesterday with a conservative rates strategy after ealy weakness in the mortgage backed securities market. But as the day progressed, and it became apparent that stocks were languishing, both treasuries and MBS improved to...
Mortgage Rates Hold Near Two Month Lows

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by Victor Burek on August 31 2009, 10:13 AM

Even though price action in the secondary market was choppy and economic reports were better than expected, conventional 30 year par mortgage rates held steady near 5.00% as prices of mortgage backed securities managed to end the week higher. The calendar...
Mortgage Rates Barely Budging

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by Victor Burek on August 28 2009, 11:19 AM

Mortgage rates continue to hold steady as prices of mortgage backed securities keep to a confined range. Economic data yesterday was as expected and had no impact on trading. Yesterday,the Treasury Department completed the third leg of the August 2s/5s...
Mortgage Rates Maintain Status Quo

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by Victor Burek on August 27 2009, 10:05 AM

Mortgage rates haven't moved much this week as prices of mortgage backed securities continue to bounce around a range. Yesterday's highlight was the Treasury Department's successful 5 year note auction. Demand for the record tying $39 billion...
Mortgage Rates Still Holding Tight Range

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by Victor Burek on August 26 2009, 10:27 AM

Mortgages rates made modest improvements after prices mortgage backed securities managed to rally for a second straight day yesterday. Although MBS prices fell following some better than expected economic data data early in the session (S&P home price...
Mortgage Rates Steady as Stocks Set New Highs

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by Victor Burek on August 25 2009, 12:44 PM

Mortgage rates are holding steady even as stocks continue to make new 2009 highs. After some early morning selling pressure yesterday, prices of mortgage backed securities managed to regain much of the losses they suffered on Friday. So far this morning...
Mortgage Rates Remain at Mercy of Broader Markets

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by Victor Burek on August 24 2009, 10:01 AM

After bouncing around a wide range last week, prices of mortgage backed securities returned to Monday's opening levels on Friday, forcing lenders to increase mortgage rates a few basis points, bringing the par 30 year fixed mortgage rate back above...

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