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  • Holding Near Six Month Rate Lows. Why Float When Rates Are This Low?

    Last week ended basically where it began with prices of mortgage backed securities moving sideways near record highs and mortgage rates holding steady near six month lows. MBS traded in a very narrowing range as the week progressed which allowed lenders to publish base 30 year conventional mortgage rates...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Mon, Nov 23 2009
  • Mortgage Rates Marginally Lower. Would You Lock or Float?

    Benchmark Treasury prices and mortgage-backed security prices rallied yesterday. AQ described the inner dynamics of the trade strategy that led to rate improvements READ MORE . In terms of the headline news catalyst for the rally in bond markets, some fixed income friendly verbiage from Federal Reserve...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Tue, Nov 17 2009
  • Mortgage Rates Move Higher After Bond Auction

    Following a somewhat disappointing 30 year bond auction yesterday, prices of mortgage backed securities plummeted and mortgage rates moved higher as lenders repriced for the worse. The economic calendar, like the previous four days of the week, is light today with only one report being released, International...
    Posted to Mortgage Rate Watch (Weblog) by Victor Burek on Fri, Oct 9 2009
  • Amortization Calculator help

    Hey there all, I have a $35,750.00 land loan, it is 6.5%/ 5 year with a 15 year amortization. Started Jun 25 2009, made 2 payments of $311.51 then on Aug 1st/16th began semi-monthly payments of $250 each. Where can I go to get a picture of future monthly amortization payments and balloon amount after...
    Posted to Mortgage Questions (Forum) by Michael Mc Cann on Wed, Sep 16 2009
  • Fed Policy and the Effect on Mortgage Valuations

    Levels in the capital markets appeared to have stabilized over the past few months. Treasury yields have remained in a fairly tight range, as have yield spreads for mortgage-backed securities. In particular, MBS yield spreads have remained quite stable since mid-June. The spread of the Fannie Mae current...
    Posted to MBS Commentary (Weblog) by Bill Berliner on Wed, Aug 26 2009
  • Rate Update: 8/17/2009

    Today's Rates 30 Year Fixed: 5.15% -0.06% 15 Year Fixed: 4.39% -0.12% FHA 30 Year Fixed: 5.19% -0.07% Jumbo 30 Year Fixed: 5.64% -0.04% 5/1 ARM 3.84% -0.03% For More Rates, Rate Charts, Housing Data, MBS Quotes : Click here Todays' Reading: Mortgage Rates Move Lower. Discussing FICO Scores (...
    Posted to Mortgage Rates Update (Weblog) by Glenn Setzer on Mon, Aug 17 2009
  • MBS MORNING: What is the Yield Curve Telling Us???

    Yo. Happy Friday People. All summer we have been preaching that markets have paid no attention to fundamentals. We've been relentlessly relaying that ITS A TRADERS WORLD...technical trading strategies dominate...range bound...waiting for guidance...wait and see....day traders paradise. These are...
    Posted to MBS Commentary (Weblog) by Adam Quinones on Fri, Aug 14 2009
  • MBS MORNING: Rates Lower Ahead of Auction.

    Good Morning All. Wake Up West Coast! The Fed didnt offer up much new guidance yesterday. Actually I dont want to say they totally crapped the bed.... they did draw out the end of the TSY purchase program....which turned out to be a net plus for MBS. Overall it was a STATUS QUO statement though. Unfortunately...
    Posted to MBS Commentary (Weblog) by Adam Quinones on Thu, Aug 13 2009
  • MBS CLOSE: Explaining Notification Day. Requesting FOMC Feedback

    Happy Notification Day. We hope you've been around long enough to avoid this joke. If you havent...this chart will probably scare you... BOO!!! OH NO MORTGAGE RATES ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF!!! HAHA LMAO.... Im messing with you. Its notification day. Do not fret! _______________________________________________________________________...
    Posted to MBS Commentary (Weblog) by Adam Quinones on Tue, Aug 11 2009
  • MBS MORNING: Defensive Rates Market Ahead of Supply

    It has been yet another slow summer morning so far. Profit taking in stocks carried over from Friday into this morning's session, however equity indices are bouncing off their morning lows, making their way back to flat on the day... The selling sentiment in stocks and oversold nature of TSYs (white...
    Posted to MBS Commentary (Weblog) by Adam Quinones on Mon, Aug 10 2009
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