Wed, Jun 12 2013, 12:44 PM
In spite of a lot of chatter and proposed legislation about phasing out Fannie & Freddie ,
much of the industry is behind the agencies. Not only do...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 11:07 AM
Bond markets made it to the domestic session with yesterday's gains
mostly intact, but struggled a bit in early trading. The movement has
all bee...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 9:48 AM
The
real story about racial discrimination in housing today, Shaun
Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) said...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 9:07 AM
After a string of dismal weeks during which refinancing activity dropped to its lowest level since November 2011, applications for both refinancing a...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 7:43 AM
As we discussed yesterday morning, the afternoon's 3yr Treasury
auction stood a chance to garner the first significant reaction to a 2
or 3yr auct...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 5:26 PM
After a brief pause for reflection following yesterday's 3yr auction,
bond markets were back in business and actually able to begin the
session ri...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 4:56 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today ,
keeping them locked in this week's new, higher range. The movement
wasn't enough to change the actual rate ...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 3:45 PM
The House Financial
Services Committee held a hearing today titled: "Beyond the GSEs:
Examples of Successful Housing Finance Models without Expli...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 2:43 PM
Nearly one-half million homeowners
refinanced their mortgages in March according to the Refinance
Report released by the Federal
Housing Financ...
Wed, Jun 12 2013, 2:24 PM
Over three-quarters
of a million homeowners emerged from being underwater on their
mortgages during the first quarter of 2013 and 39 million hous...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 12:41 PM
The plain fact is that people need , and for the most part want ,
a roof over their heads. According to an online survey conducted by
Harris Int...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 11:58 AM
Volatility continues to keep MBS prices and Treasury yields on their toes, dancing back and forth over unchanged levels, but this is a relative bless...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 10:49 AM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae reported
aggregate earnings of about $18.7 billion in FY2012, $12.1 billion of
which was earned in the fourth quarter ...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 7:30 PM
Mortgage rates moved lower today ,
recovering yesterday's weakness and making it back inside the highs
seen last Thursday. The bond markets tha...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 5:56 PM
Today was Class A 48-hour day for MBS, meaning that prices in the
table below are outdated and have been replaced by July MBS prices going
forward...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 5:40 AM
Negative sentiment for broader bond markets came out with both guns blazing this week as the pre -NFP
range that frustratingly continued to be the ...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 4:59 PM
Contrary to the increasingly prevalent argument that the benefits of homeownership
have been overemphasized, a new study by finds that it is still a...
Tue, Jun 11 2013, 4:45 PM
The
Federal Reserve Bank of New York has published a paper by one of its
former visiting scholars that flies in the face of the stated policy
of ...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 11:31 AM
For Fannie 3.5s and 10yr Treasuries, the trading levels that finally
offered support at the end of Friday's sell-off, have turned into
resistance ...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 10:16 AM
I am in Atlanta for a couple days, visiting with the Atlanta Mortgage
Bankers Association. Some of the conversations involve the $76 million
that ...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 7:58 AM
Tensions remain high in the upcoming week as last Friday's Employment
Situation Report failed to clearly suggest that the Fed would
legitimately c...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 6:54 PM
The immigration reform bill will finally get it's debut on the floor
of the Senate tomorrow with potentially big implications for the Housing
and ...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 5:57 PM
This
is the second of a two-part summary of the Center for American
Progress (CAP)/National Council of LaRaza paper titled Making
the Mortgage Ma...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 4:13 PM
Despite 10yr yields rising more than 3bps (up over 2.20% !), MBS were slightly improved by the 3pm Treasury close and look to be heading out the door ...
Mon, Jun 10 2013, 3:21 PM
Mortgage rates continued higher today ,
further extending the push into fresh 15-month highs confirmed on
Friday. The secondary mortgage marke...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 11:49 AM
Yes, mortgage rates are higher than where they were a month ago. We aren't in an " ARM market " quite yet although intermediate ARMs
are seeing some...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 7:46 PM
We could all use a little comedy considering the recent rise in rates . But delays in
the loan process are no laughing matter, costing you more ...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 6:56 PM
The
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) and the U.S.
Department of the Treasury today released the May edition of the
Obama Ad...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 5:33 AM
There's typically very little to say that hasn't already been said come NFP morning. Although that's certainly true today, yesterday's weird price ...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 5:19 PM
Mortgage rates rose today.
They rose no more or less than any other "fairly bad" day in the
history of mortgage rates, but at this particular ...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 4:40 PM
Following MBS is a tricky business. On the one hand, traders who are
rooting for MBS, do so from a spread standpoint, where the ups and downs
of ...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 3:35 PM
The
Center for American Progress (CAP) and the National Council of La
Raza have released a paper, Making
the Mortgage Market Work for American's Fa...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 1:51 PM
Today's payrolls numbers had a chance to give clear pause to near-term tapering prospects, IF
it had been weak enough. It similarly had a chanc...
Fri, Jun 7 2013, 1:06 PM
Both Treasuries and MBS are weaker at the moment after hard-fought
volatility this morning. Immediately following the NFP release, both
sides of ...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 11:44 AM
Remember all those folks that had their 401(k)'s tied up in stocks
like Countrywide, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, National City,
WAMU... the ...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 6:59 AM
Today is the last before the event we've been waiting for since May 22nd. It was that dose of unexpectedly candid taper talk from Bernanke (later e...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 5:30 PM
Frank Nothaft , Freddie Mac vice president and
chief economist said, "Borrowers continue to strengthen their
fiscal house by taking advantage of nea...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 4:42 PM
Mortgage rates improved today ,
bringing them back in line with the week's lower levels from Monday.
It's worth noting, that Monday's rates wer...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 4:36 PM
Do markets know something that we don't know? That's a tempting
question to ask after witnessing what was probably the most significant
global ma...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 3:58 PM
Among
the areas of focus in the most recent edition of Lender Processing
Service's (LPS) Mortgage
Monitor are the metrics
surrounding the market...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 2:05 PM
The morning has been intense in terms of the " unseen hand " causing massive market movements. I talk a lot about "tradeflows
and technicals" movin...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 1:25 PM
Although there was no
information as to precisely what precipitated it, Wells Fargo Bank ,
N.A. has agreed to invest $39 million dollars to help im...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 1:24 PM
Every
month Fannie Mae releases a report on the results of its most recent
National Housing Survey. The survey, which is conducted by telephone
am...
Thu, Jun 6 2013, 1:22 PM
For the fifth straight month more than
70 percent of U.S. Metropolitan areas are listed as "improving"
by the National Association of Home Builder...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 12:24 PM
Representative
Darrell Issa (R-CA) is said to have accused the Federal Housing
Administration (FHA) of attempting to bury a $115 shortfall in its
...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 11:42 AM
There was perhaps more volatility than MBS markets would have liked
following this morning's weaker-than-expected ADP Employment numbers.
Private...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 11:33 AM
Yesterday the commentary mentioned a question, "Rob, how can I gear up my consumer direct division to go after purchase business?" I
received this n...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 8:54 AM
There
was another substantial drop in mortgage applications during the week
ended May 31 as rates increased, in some cases to 13 month highs.
Th...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 7:55 AM
It's a sign of the times when fringy (no negative connotation here; merely refers to edge of spectrum) non-voting FOMC members express their fringy op...
Wed, Jun 5 2013, 6:17 PM
The blood-letting in MBS continued today in terms of price gains
relative to broader rates markets. For instance, 10yr Yields were
roughly 6 bps ...
