Mortgage Rates Blog

Place your ad here

Email Alerts

Receive an Email Alert each time a story is posted to MBS Commentary.

- Subscribe to Email Alerts

RSS

- Posts | Comments

- View All RSS Feeds

Newsletters

- Subscribe to Newsletter

- Subscribe to Mortgage Rates Update

Latest Headlines

From MBS Commentary

MBS Day Ahead: Near-Term Bond Market Fate to be Decided by Jobs...

MBS RECAP: Massive Sell-Off in Stocks but no Rally in Bonds

MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Bounce Back After Anxiety-Ridden Start...

MBS Day Ahead: What Yesterday's GDP Shocker Means for Rates

MBS RECAP: FOMC Announcement Wholly Overshadowed by GDP

View All

Other Top Headlines

Mortgage Rates Barely Higher, More Volatility Ahead

Longest Recorded Refi Boom Ends; New Demographic Emerges

Concentration of Foreclosure Inventory is a Concern - CoreLogic

JD Powers Report on Servicing; Non-Vanilla Securitization Market...

Mortgage Rates Highest in More Than a Month After GDP

Latest Video

Longest Recorded Refi Boom Ends; New Demographic Emerges; Foreclosure Concentration Concern; What GDP Means for Rates

Published: 7/31/2014

VIEW | SUBSCRIBE | ARCHIVE

Comments

Latest Questions

Channel Options ↓ More

MBS Commentary Headlines

RSS

EMAIL ALERTS

News » MBS Commentary

Home » News Headlines » MBS Commentary Home

SECONDARY MARKETING MANAGERS:

Gain access to the most accurate real-time back month TBA indications from Thomson Reuters and Tradeweb. LEARN MORE

MBS Basics: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | The Gut Flop

Sort by: Most Recent | Most Viewed | Most Commented

MBS Day Ahead: Near-Term Bond Market Fate to be Decided by Jobs Report

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on August 01 2014, 7:31 AM

First off, anything can happen on NFP days, so feel free to skip the rest of this and buckle up for the ride if you're reading this before 8:30am ET. For those interested in some context for today's possibilities, here you go. It used to be a...
MBS RECAP: Massive Sell-Off in Stocks but no Rally in Bonds

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 31 2014, 5:05 PM

It's not often you'll see the S&P down over 30 points with less than 1bp of day-over-day movement in 10yr yields, but that's where we're heading out today. Things might have been worse for Treasuries, however, had it not been for the...
MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Bounce Back After Anxiety-Ridden Start

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 31 2014, 12:34 PM

The stakes are high for the rest of this week as far as bond markets are concerned. The anxiety is obvious. Is this the turning point where we bounce off periodic lows and head higher? Even if we're only concerned about the next few weeks, that's...
MBS Day Ahead: What Yesterday's GDP Shocker Means for Rates

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 31 2014, 7:39 AM

With GDP living up to it's surprising potential, things have quickly gotten more serious for domestic bond markets. Before yesterday, econo-bears could hold out some hope that Q2 GDP might have reiterated the gloominess of Q1 GDP in some way. They...
MBS RECAP: FOMC Announcement Wholly Overshadowed by GDP

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 30 2014, 6:18 PM

Tonight's theme: "not many." It's not many times that GDP will crack 4% after being down more than 2% in the previous quarter, but it did today. But that's because it's not many times that the US economy will grow at 3.5% in...
Differences Between Past and Current FOMC Statements

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 30 2014, 1:59 PM

Release Date: June 18, July 30, 2014 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April June indicates that growth in economic activity has rebounded in recent months. the second quarter. Labor market indicators...
MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Pummeled by GDP; Bracing for Aftershock from FOMC

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 30 2014, 12:46 PM

Bond markets began the day on relatively level ground vs yesterday. It was, and has been up to GDP to cast the first major vote on whether or not bond markets move on to new highs for 2014 (or lows in terms of yield), or if they would be turned back toward...
MBS Day Ahead: Big Potential for Bond Markets, for Better or Worse

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 30 2014, 7:33 AM

On the afternoon of the Thursday before last, bond markets had just gone on their run to the best levels in over a month on the geopolitical flare-up (that was the day that begin with the Malaysian Airliner and ended with Israel announcing a ground assault...
MBS RECAP: Bonds Bounce Back From Mid-Day Swoon

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 29 2014, 5:00 PM

Markets were more active today, offering a nice little warm up for what promises to be an even more active day tomorrow. The movement came in waves, beginning with a strong bond market rally at the start of the European trading session. US Treasuries...
MBS MID-DAY: Bond Markets Back Near Unchanged Levels after Stronger Start

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 29 2014, 12:39 PM

The day started out well for Treasuries and MBS for a variety of reasons. European bond markets have been the most reliable motivation for overnight movement in Treasuries and last night was no exception. This time around German Bund yields (a good benchmark...
MBS Day Ahead: Last Day of Tame Data Before Things Get Serious

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 29 2014, 7:42 AM

Yesterday proved to be anything but serious based on the narrow trading range. 10yr yields only used up half of the range they'd carved out on Friday and MBS, even less than that. With none of the week's big-ticket market movers hitting until...
MBS RECAP: Some Weakness and a Few Reprices, but Mostly Holding Ground

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 28 2014, 5:11 PM

More due to timing and coincidence than anything, we got a few negative reprices this afternoon. Shortly thereafter, prices moved right back mid-point of today's trading range and never left . That said, things were a bit weaker in Treasuries. A small...
MBS MID-DAY: Hold Ground, Moderately Weaker, but Outperforming Treasuries

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 28 2014, 12:56 PM

Very little happened in the overnight session and very little has changed into the domestic trading hours. Bond markets were a bit weaker overnight and have found little reason to do much else so far today. The only significant data today was the Pending...
MBS Day Ahead: Tons of Potential Volatility with GDP, Fed Announcement, and Jobs Report

Comments (0)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 28 2014, 7:42 AM

Finally we come to the week we've been eyeing for nearly a month as a candidate for major changes. It's fitting that 10yr yields ended the previous week right at 2.47% which--above all others--is the poster-child for inflection points for bond markets...
MBS RECAP: Bond Markets Hold on to Recent Gains Ahead of Big Week

Comments (1)

Read More

by Matthew Graham on July 25 2014, 3:51 PM

Next week promises to be big. Even if the events don't 'agree' with each other enough to spark a major rally or sell-off, the potential is there. Due to last week's geopolitical headlines, bond markets arguably made it down to the lower...

1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »

Discuss the MBS and Mortgage Markets on Our Streaming Dashboard

Discuss MBS and Mortgage Markets with Hundreds of Loan Officers on the MBS Live Streaming Dashboard.

»Start a Two Week Risk Free Trial

More From MND