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MBS RECAP: Strong Again, This Time After Morning Head-Fake

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by Matthew Graham on April 24 2014, 3:54 PM

For the second straight day, MBS are coasting toward the close having held a narrow 4/32nds range for most of the day, having seen little, if any threat of major weakness. Today was a bit different than yesterday in that it started out in weaker territory...
MBS MID-DAY: Volatile Morning Leaves MBS Just Barely Positive

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by Matthew Graham on April 24 2014, 12:01 PM

Bond markets have had a volatile morning so far. Treasuries were slightly weaker overnight, resulting in lower opening levels in MBS. Both were weaker still after the 8:30am economic data. Although the Jobless Claims headline came in higher than expected...
MBS Day Ahead: Jobless Claims Data is More Important Than Normal Today

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by Matthew Graham on April 24 2014, 8:00 AM

Bond markets continue to be relentlessly sideways. Just when Treasury yields were staging for their best chance at breaking out of a 3-month range-bind, yields spiked late last week after a token amount of deescalation in Ukraine following the Geneva...
MBS RECAP: Strong and Stable all Day

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by Matthew Graham on April 23 2014, 4:21 PM

It was a refreshingly strong day for MBS and Treasuries. While the gains weren't immense by any standard, they were mostly present from the start of the day and never looked to be under dire threat. Weak economic data helped get things going in the...
MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Stronger After New Home Sales Data

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by Matthew Graham on April 23 2014, 12:07 PM

Even before this morning's economic data, bond markets were already in slightly stronger territory. The data itself only helped, though it's a double-edged sword for the Housing Market. New Home Sales hit a 9 month low, falling to a 384k unit...
MBS Day Ahead: Aimless Week, Downbeat Home Sales Forecast, and Technical Silver Lining

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by Matthew Graham on April 23 2014, 7:00 AM

The first two days back from the extended weekend have been surprisingly uneventful, and that's saying something considering they were already likely to be fairly quiet. There hasn't been much by way of potential market movers so far and if yesterday's...
MBS RECAP: Bond Markets Trickle Back to Positive Territory

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by Matthew Graham on April 22 2014, 4:06 PM

The overarching caveat for any assessment of today's market activity is that the whole thing occurred in a relatively tight range. Sustained highs and lows were in a 4/32nds range in MBS and just over 2bps in 10yr yields. There was little, if any...
MBS MID-DAY: Quick Move Back to Unchanged After Weaker Morning

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by Matthew Graham on April 22 2014, 12:07 PM

Stocks and bonds have been in relative lock-step for much of 2014 (stock prices and bond yields moving in same direction, aka 'stock lever'). The correlation had been on hold to a large degree over the past few sessions but made something of a...
MBS Day Ahead: More Meaningful Economic Data, Treasury Auctions Begin, Vacations End

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by Matthew Graham on April 22 2014, 8:00 AM

Global financial markets were unequivocally still out on holiday breaks yesterday--unofficially in the US and officially in Europe. There were no major reactions to Geopolitical headlines or any other substantive market movers in the domestic session...
MBS RECAP: Bond Markets Weaker, but Staying Inside Last Week's Range

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by Matthew Graham on April 21 2014, 3:57 PM

The trading day was an insult to anyone attempting to pay any attention today. Considering it was the slowest day of the year (including early closes ahead of holidays), it didn't take much effort by traders to move prices. There are two ways to look...
MBS MID-DAY: Holiday Weekend Unofficially Extending Today

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by Matthew Graham on April 21 2014, 12:09 PM

If bond market activity is any indication, today might as well be another day of the extended holiday weekend. In fact, this is officially the case in Europe, which is part of the reason things are off to a slow start in the US. The other consideration...
MBS Week Ahead: Limited Data and Events Leave Focus on Headlines

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by Matthew Graham on April 21 2014, 7:51 AM

Just a few short days after the ostensible deescalation in Ukraine following Thursday's Geneva talks, violence broke out over the weekend with a shootout between pro-Russia activists and unidentified gunmen. Russia quickly denounced the incident as...
MBS RECAP: Moderate Selling Followed by Heavy Selling and Tons of Reprices

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by Matthew Graham on April 17 2014, 3:02 PM

Bond markets had a bad day. The setup for this one started as early as Tuesday, when what looked like a shift toward weakness on Monday was instead greeted with a refreshing amount of resilience. Despite the fact that the resilience was based on geopolitical...
MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Weaker After Economic Data Prompting Negative Reprices for Mortgage Rates

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by Matthew Graham on April 17 2014, 11:34 AM

Given the recent adherence to a sideways range in bond markets combined with today's economic data coming in stronger than expected, it's not surprising to see yields moving from a lower rung on the range-bound ladder to the next rung higher....
MBS Day Ahead: Biggest Economic Data of the Week; Bond Markets Close at 2pm

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by Matthew Graham on April 17 2014, 7:51 AM

At the beginning of the week, we discussed the shared fate between stocks and bonds, noting that they'd been exceptionally well-connected of late and that both were approaching the later phases of a move lower (in price for stocks, and in yield for...

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