Last Week....

830am data was better than expected....following the release prices of the UST10YR note fell pushing yields from 3.52% to 3.56%. MBS coupons are lagging the reactions of TSY traders and yield spreads have tightened as MBS outperforms benchmark TSYs...but MBS prices nonetheLess worse at the open.

 

Consumption data read -0.1%...economists were expecting -0.2% after a revised for the worse -0.3% print in March.

Core PCE (inflation) read +0.3%...economists were expecting a reading of +0.2% following the +0.2% print in March.

Personal Income read +0.5%...economists were expecting -0.2% following a revised for the better -0.2% March number.

 

At 10am we get Construction Spending (expecting -1.30% following +0.30% in March) and US ISM manufacturing data (expecting 42.0 after 40.1 in April)

 

MBS QUOTES

UST10YR/FN45 Yield Spread: +83.37bps

UST5YR/FN45 Yield Spread: 198.65bps

 

2s/10s: 260.29 bps

5/29 EFFECTIVE FED FUNDS:  +0.02  to  0.19  from 0.17

 

LIBOR FIXINGS

O/N LIBOR:   -0.0088    to   0.2625  from  0.2713

1 MONTH:       +0.0037   to  0.3200  from  0.3162

3 MONTH:       -0.0063    to  0.6500  from  0.6563

6 MONTH:       -0.0063    to  1.2337  from  1.2400

1 YEAR:         -0.0063     to  1.5938  from  1.6000