Daily Newsletter: Wednesday March 13, 2013

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30 Year Fixed

                                                                3.69%
                                                                  
                                                                +0.00

15 Year Fixed

                                                                2.99%
                                                                  
                                                                +0.00

10YR Treasury

                                                                2.02%
                                                                  
                                                                +0.0000

FNMA 30YR 3.5

                                                                105-01
                                                                  
                                                                +0-02

FNMA 15YR 2.5

                                                                104-28
                                                                  
                                                                +0-01

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Wednesday March 13, 2013

MND NewsWire - 3:13PM

Study Shows Apparent Disparities in Lending to Women

A new study has revealed some apparent differences in the success rate of female and male mortgage applicants . The Woodstock Institute, a non-profit research organization, conducted ...

MND NewsWire - 11:53AM

HARP Beats Expectations, Toping the 2 Million Mark

The Home Affordable Mortgage Refinancing Program ( HARP ) outperformed expectations in 2012 after enhancements to the program in late 2011 increased its availability to underwater homeowners ...

MND NewsWire - 2:58PM

HOPE NOW Aided over 100,000 Homeowners in January

HOPE NOW reports that its members completed 78,397 permanent loan modifications during the month of January and 29,244 short sales . The voluntary, private sector alliance of mortgage ...

Mortgage Rate Watch - 3:49PM

Mortgage Rates Still Stratified But Sideways On Average

Mortgage rates were flat on average today, but continued to be stratified depending on the lender. In other words, some rate sheets were moderately better than yesterday's latest while ...

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More News from 'Around the Web'

Reuters - 4:41PM
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances
CNBC - 4:39PM
Housing Rebound an Assist for Sales: Home Depot CEO
www.aia.org - 5:27PM
Architects Urge Passage of Small Business Tax Reform Package
DataQuick - 3:18PM
DataQuick: February SoCal Home Sales Report
Realtor.Org - 2:31PM
Lenders: What's Holding Back Loans
House Financial Services - 2:20PM
Financially Troubled FHA Crowding Out Private Sector Mortgage Insurers, Witnesses Tell Subcommittee
Business Week - 11:48AM
Graham Fisher Sees Parallels to Fannie Mae in JPMorgan
The Big Picture - 10:58AM
JPM: The Washington Mutual Story
www.aei-ideas.org - 10:58AM
Were those bank stress tests really this useless?
Business Week - 10:24AM
BofA Said to Cut 5% of Property Appraisers Amid Slowdown
freddiemac.mwnewsroom.com - 10:19AM
Freddie Mac Extends Mortgage Relief to Borrowers Affected by Mississippi Storms
Bloomberg - 12:27AM
Underwater Americans Skirting Default as HARP Use Rising
NAFCU - 12:26AM
CU reg burden raised at Cordray hearing

Today's Comments

	MBS Live Chat - 1:32PM "REPRICE : 1:32 PM - Franklin American Better..."
	MBS Live Chat - 1:44PM "REPRICE : 1:44 PM - Sun West Mortgage Better..."
	MBS Live Chat - 1:52PM "REPRICE : 1:52 PM - Interbank Better..."
	MND NewsWire - 5:30PM "Ken, Could you let me know what you think about our solution to this problem? We have been independently tracking this specific problem for the 2+ years, and we decided to create our own analytics/SW solution to clean up messy data, uncover hidden operations risk, and improve lender operation quality..."

Today's Rates

Best Execution

Rate

Change

30 Yr FRM

3.69%

+0.00

15 Yr FRM

2.99%

+0.00

FHA 30 Year Fixed

3.40%

+0.00

Jumbo 30 Year Fixed

3.81%

+0.00

5/1 Yr ARM

3.02%

+0.01

Current Mortgage Rates »

What are best-execution rates?

Average Mortgage Rates

Rate

Points

Change

FHFA *

15 Yr. Fixed

2.78%

0.76

+0.08

30 Yr. Fixed

3.53%

1.11

+0.06

MBA **

30 Yr. Fixed

3.70%

0.39

-0.07

15 Yr. Fixed

2.96%

0.36

-0.07

30 Yr. Jumbo

3.80%

0.37

-0.13

30 Yr. FHA

3.47%

0.33

-0.07

5/1 ARM

2.55%

0.37

-0.10

Freddie Mac **

30 Yr. Fixed

3.52%

0.70

+0.01

15 Yr. Fixed

2.76%

0.70

+0.00

1 Yr. ARM

2.63%

0.30

-0.01

5/1 Yr. ARM

2.63%

0.50

+0.02

Current Mortgage Rates »

* FHFA averages are updated monthly.
** Mortgage Bankers Association (each Wednesday) and Freddie Mac (each Thursday) averages are updated weekly.

Secondary Markets

MBS

Price

Change

30YR FNMA 3.0

102-13

+0-00

30YR FNMA 3.5

105-01

+0-02

30YR GNMA 3.0

103-31

+0-05

30YR GNMA 3.5

107-01

+0-03

15YR FNMA 3.0

104-28

+0-01

15YR FNMA 2.5

103-10

+0-03

Treasuries

Yield

Change

2 YR

0.2620%

+0.0040

5 YR

0.8774%

+0.0082

10 YR

2.0191%

+0.0000

30 YR

3.2164%

+0.0016

Prices as of: 3/13/2013 4:30PM EST

Current MBS / Treasury Prices »

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