Tue, Oct 13 2015, 5:30 PM
Heading into 3-day weekends, it's not uncommon for investors to move to the sidelines by selling some of their holdings with the intention of getting ...
Tue, Oct 13 2015, 4:33 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today , erasing only some of the weakness that dominated the previous week. In other words, rates were significantly hi...
Tue, Oct 13 2015, 1:56 PM
The holiday-shortened week is off to a slow but positive start for bond markets. The early overnight trading wholly confirms our "move to the sidel...
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 11:18 AM
Distressed property sales continue to shrink as a percentage of all sales,
but CoreLogic says it may be another four years before those shares reach ...
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 11:14 AM
Fifth Third admitted it improperly certified more than 1,400 mortgage loans it knew were defective as eligible for FHA, costing taxpayers millions....
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 7:33 AM
You would think that after years of working in the same office that market participants would know how to find their way to the door. Yet strangely e...
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 6:32 PM
After trending decisively higher during almost every hour since hitting bottom last Friday, stocks and bond yields leveled off today. Perhaps it's ...
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 5:48 PM
Mortgage rates were generally quiet today as bond markets wound down ahead of the 3-day weekend. While stock markets and many businesses will be ...
Fri, Oct 9 2015, 2:15 PM
I reserve the right for this "MBS MID-DAY" to also be the "MBS RECAP" as I don't expect much to happen in the rest of the trading day. It seems fairl...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 10:43 AM
In case you missed it, last month Fannie Mae began to
transition the multi-graph and narrative report detailing results of its
National Housing Surv...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 10:14 AM
Who
says that financial reporters don't have a sense of humor? I caught
this recent headline about a story on Alcoa Aluminum splitting into
mini...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 7:32 AM
Any deep hypothetical analysis of recent bond market behavior requires a caveat about volume and volatility . Namely, we haven't had any of either o...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 5:40 PM
The overnight session was extra quiet for bond markets, with no meaningful movements until after 8am. In hindsight, uneventful was good as the recent...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 5:01 PM
Mortgage rates moved modestly higher today , depending on the lender. Once again, pricing strategies remained widely variable due to market volati...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 1:57 PM
Saying it was "deeply concerned" about how marketing
services agreements are undermining consumer safeguards against kickbacks, the
Consumer Finan...
Thu, Oct 8 2015, 1:10 PM
Bonds continue following the broader global correction leading back from the stock market weakness at the end of September. This has been a classic ...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 12:55 PM
Domestic bond markets continue to be more-or-less glued to stocks . Treasuries began flat in the overnight session, but yields soon began rising as ...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 9:43 AM
How
long has your staff been on their jobs? The Fed has kept short term
rates unchanged for 6 years and 9 months at this point. Does your senior
...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 9:05 AM
Declining rates, an impending hurricane, the Blood Moon - who knows what
was behind - it but mortgage application volume went a little crazy last we...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 8:42 AM
Every so often, amid the multitude of relatively vague and more complex technical indicators, bond markets just 'give us the answer.' Granted, the an...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 5:36 PM
In yet another installment of "the headline is the recap," today's trading session was largely uneventful apart from the moderate weakness carried ove...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 3:49 PM
Mortgage rates put in another day with minimal movement today. If there was a detectable bias, it was toward slightly higher rates, but many lend...
Wed, Oct 7 2015, 3:25 PM
The housing industry has long expected
that pending home sales in a given month will fairly accurately forecast the actual
sales transactions that f...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 12:56 PM
Overnight trading was inconsequential for domestic bond markets with both Treasuries and MBS hitting New York hours very close to 'unchanged.' Asian ...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 10:47 AM
CoreLogic said on Tuesday that its Home Price Index (HPI)
including distressed sales rose on a year-over-basis for the 42 nd
consecutive month in...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 10:43 AM
A loosening of access to GSE (Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae) loans
in September, contributed to a slight increase in the Mortgage Credit
Availability I...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 10:22 AM
It
is not an issue of "if", but "when". The ABA said it suffered a
cyberattack of its online shopping cart and at least 6,400 user records
h...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 7:33 AM
That disturbance you might have felt in the force--that's the high-conviction shift in both stocks and bonds. Whereas both had been defying the conse...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 4:58 PM
Mortgage rates managed to hold their ground in
most cases today. That's a refreshing turn of events considering the
forceful move higher seen...
Tue, Oct 6 2015, 4:57 PM
Bond markets came into the domestic session roughly unchanged, but soon found themselves under pressure. Before 9am, concerns over the day's corporat...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 9:08 AM
"Well
I know a pretty little place in Southern California, down San Diego
way. There's a little café, where they play guitars all night long babe,...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 7:33 AM
Friday's NFP reaction was fun, and then perhaps a bit painful. The data itself was abhorrent--coming in weaker in every imaginable way and without an...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 5:06 PM
Here it is the end of Monday and markets are still stuck on the same old thoughts and strategies that existed last week even before the NFP release. ...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 3:52 PM
Mortgage rates moved substantially higher today in the context of recent day-to-day changes. In the broader context, we're still talking about 30...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 2:23 PM
Once the recession ended and unemployment, which had
especially impacted Millennials, returned to normal levels, that age group was
expected to inc...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 1:43 PM
While they aren't doing it at nearly the rate they did
before the Great Recession, Americans are increasingly tapping the equity in
their homes wi...
Mon, Oct 5 2015, 1:05 PM
For lack of a better way to explain it, Friday's post-NFP rally was like a final, glorious charge into enemy territory. Bond markets had already push...
Fri, Oct 2 2015, 12:05 PM
If you haven't heard by now, today's main event--Nonfarm Payrolls, or officially, 'The Employment Situation'--was significantly weaker than expected...
Fri, Oct 2 2015, 10:32 AM
TRID
arrives tomorrow, put into business practice on Monday. And the
industry wonders if, since under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law the
CF...
Fri, Oct 2 2015, 7:33 AM
By all rights, yesterday was the day that should have seen domestic bond markets consolidate recent gains and take a breather ahead of this week's NFP...
Fri, Oct 2 2015, 7:05 PM
Bond markets experienced a quintessentially volatile reaction to a classic example of a "big miss" in the NFP data . As we've discussed several time...
Fri, Oct 2 2015, 1:55 PM
Mortgage rates had a wild day today . If you've spoken to a mortgage originator about rates any time in the past 24 hours, it's important to under...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 11:58 AM
We've previously explored homebuyers' "Do's and Don'ts" and uncovered
some vital tips that help or hinder the home buying process. In today's
spec...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 11:47 AM
Even though home prices have increased in a more or less
uninterrupted pattern since early 2012 a joint report form RealtyTrac and Clear
Capital put...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 11:30 AM
There was a small increase in both publicly and privately
funded construction spending in August.
Privately funded residential spending performed s...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 9:59 AM
Today I am in transit to Virginia Beach for the VMLA Annual Convention ,
October 1-2. How did we end up in October already? Certainly the
seasons...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 4:40 PM
The headline is the recap today. If an hour of the day ended with an "AM," it was good for bond markets today. The only exception would be the midni...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 4:02 PM
Mortgage rates can seemingly do no wrong this week. They fell again today--this time making it firmly into territory not seen since late April. ...
Thu, Oct 1 2015, 1:13 PM
Treasury yields and equities began the overnight session moving higher after stronger manufacturing data in China. Treasuries managed to hold their g...
Wed, Sep 30 2015, 10:54 PM
Month/quarter-end buying was an important part of this week's strength through Wednesday. It served as sort of a constant, mildly positive force helpi...
