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  • Mortgage Rates Waiting on the Federal Reserve

    Mortgage rates moved higher early Friday morning following a better than expected read on Retail Sales. However, as the day progressed, benchmark Treasury yields did move lower, helping mortgage-backed securities prices recover early session losses. Most lenders did not reprice for the better after these...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Mon, Mar 15 2010
  • Floating is Risky Ahead of Major Market Events

    Yesterday, following a better than expected read on Manufacturing and Pending Home Sales, benchmark rates backed up and prices of mortgage-backed securities moved lower, forcing several lenders to reissue new rate sheets with lower prices, therefore increasing consumer borrowing costs. The economic calendar...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Tue, Nov 3 2009
  • Strong Earnings Pressure Mortgage Rates Higher

    Yesterday, prices of mortgage backed securities managed to regain some of the losses suffered at the end of last week which allowed lenders to offer better mortgage rates. After the closing bell, Intel reported better than expected earnings which caused a selloff in Treasury futures. Selling then intensified...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Wed, Oct 14 2009
  • Mortgage Rates Steady Ahead of FOMC Statement

    Mortgage rates were mostly unchanged yesterday as the economic calendar was empty and the market settled in for another FOMC statement. Prices of mortgage-backed securities did manage to move marginally higher following a successful auction of 2 year Treasury notes, which saw the highest demand in over...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Wed, Sep 23 2009
  • Mortgage Rates Slighty Higher As Stocks Hold Gains

    After holding steady near the top of the current trading range, mortgage backed securities came under selling pressure yesterday afternoon as stocks rallied off intraday price lows. Several lenders repriced for the worse as MBS losses held into to the close. Despite the price decline of MBS and maringal...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Tue, Sep 22 2009
  • What Will Move Mortgage Rates This Week?

    It was an up and down week for mortgage backed securities last week. Despite better than expected economic data, MBS didn’t give up too much ground and mortgage rates did manage to dip to 4.75%. However by week’s end, rates had risen to 4.875% for the best qualified consumers. To remind readers...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Mon, Sep 21 2009
  • Mortgage Rates Slightly Lower After FOMC

    We had quite a volatile day yesterday. MBS prices moved to the lows of the day immediately following the 10 year treasury auction and then ticked even lower following the release of the Fed statement an hour later. Many lenders did reprice for the worse as losses grew, pushing mortgage rates higher....
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Thu, Aug 13 2009
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