The Federal Reserve today reported on their weekly purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS). In the five trading days between August 13 and August 19, the Federal Reserve purchased a gross total of $26.640 billion agency MBS. After subtracting sales (providing liquidity/the roll) the Fed's...
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [ Return to the blog ] We just said that investors are paying 102% of the face value of a bond in certain cases right? So what happens if they are not interested at that price any more? No more liquidity for the mortgage market. So how do you combat this? In a nutshell...
[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [ Return to the blog ] Deciphering the Greek Now that there are graphs and MBS prices posted periodically, we've received numerous questions about the significance of the data. This is intended to be a brief companion to the daily mortgage rate analysis that will...
Another bad day for the financial markets as two of its major players, Fannie Mae and Swiss banking power UBS announced big losses on mortgage related investments. UBS said that it would have first-quarter losses of $10.9 billion and would cut 5,500 jobs, nearly half in its investment banking unit. The...
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) which oversees operation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac late Tuesday announced a major initiative in cooperation with the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to increase, by perhaps as much as $200 billion, the liquidity of the mortgage...
I can't decide what was more troublesome yesterday: the comically uninformed questions put to Big Ben regarding mortgage rates, or the comically inaccurate article printed by CNBC on the same subject. Whatever the case, the media is awash with analysts, experts, officials, and laypersons offering rather...