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Mortgage rates held steady near aggressive levels yesterday. While we had more than one scheduled economic release to digest, trading in the bond market was slow as several overseas markets were out on holiday. Over the past week mortgage rates have slowly improved thanks to market participants allocating...
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Its been a wild week in mortgage rate land. Lenders have repriced for the better, they have repriced for the worse, only to reprice for the better again! And that's just two days of action. Its been a roller coaster ride to say the least, but some how we've managed to end up right back where...
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Mortgage rates held steady yesterday despite a healthy rally in the stock market. Lenders were able to keep mortgage rate sheets mostly unchanged as prices of mortgage backed securities held to a tight range throughout the day. President Obama released his 2011 Budget yesterday morning. We were hoping...
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Prices of mortgage backed securities hit a new all time high yesterday. To remind readers, as prices of mortgage backed securities move higher, lenders are able to offer lower mortgage rates. Unfortunately, despite the move higher in MBS prices, lenders have been reluctant to push mortgage rates much...
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Last week ended on positive note for mortgage backed securities and mortgage rates. As stock indexes fell, market participants re-allocated portfolios from risky assets to safer investments, resulting in added demand for government AAA rated fixed income securities. The benchmark 10 yr Treasury note...
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Mortgage rates were unchanged as the third quarter came to a close yesterday. MBS prices have moved sideways at their highest levels in over four months after rallying to those levels on Monday. With today's economic data releases, prices are moving HIGHER, pushing into levels not seen since the...
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Pending home sales have increased for seven straight months, the longest in the series of the index which began in 2001, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
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The Pending Home Sales Index rose more than expected with a 3.2% advance in March, against forecasts that it would be unchanged after a revised 2.0% gain in February. The index now stands at 84.6. Annually, pending sales have risen 1.1% since March 2008. The index, released by the National Association...
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A rate decision from the Bank of Canada, the release of U.S. auto sales data for February and a barrage of central bank and government speakers are the main events of the North American session, while European market participants will focus on comments from their own central bankers. At 8 a.m. EST, Atlanta...
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An index looking at pending home sales in the U.S. picked up its pace of decline in November, the National Association of Realtors reported on Tuesday. U.S. pending home sales fell more than expected with a 4.0% decline in November. The index now stands at 82.3, down from an downwardly revised 85.7 reading...