Wed, Sep 5 2012, 4:24 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
No matter how many times and how vigorously we shake the magic 8-ball, it continues offering the mo...
Wed, Sep 5 2012, 3:20 PM
Mortgage rates moved very slightly higher today and in some cases, were unchanged. This keeps average rates in the same territory as last Friday an...
Wed, Sep 5 2012, 3:17 PM
Loan modifications through the HOPE NOW
program increased dramatically in July, soaring 43 percent from the number of
completed modifications in J...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 12:15 PM
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR)
said that Realtors are expressing less confidence about overall
market conditions, buyer and seller traf...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 11:18 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Bond markets opened in weaker territory this morning after ECB Pres Mario Draghi was quoted as saying ...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 11:08 AM
Yes, it's Tuesday already - and football season. Wasn't it just Memorial
Day? Here's a quick one told to me by a college football referee in Ohio:
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Tue, Sep 4 2012, 10:13 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Markets were still shaking off some of the extended weekend today as volume was relatively low fo...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 10:12 AM
Home prices in
the U.S. enjoyed the largest annual increase in July that they had in six
years, increasing 3.8 percent from prices in July 2011. ...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 7:48 AM
The first week of September is here, and with it, the first salvo of the "big ticket events" that we've been waiting for since the rally that follow...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 4:07 PM
Construction spending was $834.39 billion in July compared
to $842.22 billion in June and $763.47 in July 2011, a decrease of 0.9 percent
from the ...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 3:12 PM
Mortgage rates were completely unchanged today despite the 3-day Labor Day weekend. Historically, there has been a fair amount of volatility betwee...
Tue, Sep 4 2012, 2:59 PM
Freddie Mac has authorized its mortgage servicers to
extend all of the company's mortgage relief options to its borrowers along the
Gulf Coast affec...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 11:36 AM
Fannie Mae reduced its Gross Mortgage
Portfolio by $5.86 billion during July to $667 billion and is reducing that
portfolio at a compound annualiz...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 11:23 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's guarantee
fees (g-fees) on single-family mortgages are about to go up by an average of 10
basis points. The increa...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 11:20 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
After some morning weakness, bond markets were able to get back to relative flatness heading into B...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 8:18 AM
The lead-off analogy is one that we've used many times to relate a relatively simple market phenomenon, just as the primary subject material is a re...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 5:01 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today reaching their best levels since early in the month after a speech from Fed President Bernanke in Jackson ...
Fri, Aug 31 2012, 4:36 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Today's tricky because the obvious focus had been Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech . So seeing a su...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 11:50 AM
Mortgage bankers saw
their profits surge during the second quarter of 2012, increasing from $1,654 on
each loan originated in the first quarter of...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 11:29 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Lowest 10yr yield on 8/28 was 1.6147... Given that we generally characterize the current week as fl...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 10:18 AM
I can't walk by a magazine stand in a grocery store or an airport without
seeing a bunch of folks on the covers who are either in better shape than I...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 8:35 AM
Foreclosed and pre-foreclosed homes
maintained their position as the source of over a fifth of U.S. home sales in
the second quarter of 2012. Twe...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 7:25 AM
Bond markets continued to give the impression that they're not eager to commit to any prolonged directional moves ahead of the series of events most...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 4:30 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Thursday night and we've essentially seen the sidewa ys range established last Thursday hold up in...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 4:05 PM
Mortgage rates moved slightly lower today recovering a portion of weakness seen yesterday. Markets have a lot on their plate in the first two weeks...
Thu, Aug 30 2012, 2:04 PM
Delinquency rates for commercial and
multi-family mortgages continued to rise in CMBS portfolios during the second
quarter of 2012 and now stand a...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 11:35 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
This morning has seen Q2 final GDP print +1.7 percent, as expected, as well as a better-than-expect...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 10:47 AM
Pending home sales rose to the highest
level in over two years last month according to the Pending Home Sales Index
for July released by the Nationa...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 10:35 AM
While applications for purchase mortgages rose
slightly during the week ended August 24 it wasn't enough to compensate for the
drop in refinancing a...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 7:54 AM
Occasionally, reality proves to sober the cynicism or concern in our analysis. Sometimes, events crop up that have an unexpectedly large impact on tr...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 4:46 PM
First lien mortgage debt decreased
substantially during the second quarter of 2012, bringing overall household
indebtedness down by $53 billion co...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 4:22 PM
Mortgage rates moved higher today at a fairly quick pace after falling in line with their best levels of the month yesterday. The move doesn't alte...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 4:19 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
Volume increased today as headlines and data became more plentiful, but not necessarily because of ...
Wed, Aug 29 2012, 4:06 PM
Joseph A. Smith, Monitor of the National
Mortgage Servicing Settlement issued a progress report on Wednesday. Smith, former North Carolina Banking...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 11:46 AM
While the gains were modest, all three
major S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Indices ended the second quarter of 2012
with positive annual growth ra...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 11:34 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
Last week we noted the possibility that the current week could see a mostly sideways grind into the...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 11:21 AM
CoreLogic's July National
Foreclosure Report , released today, reported completed foreclosures
during the month totaled 58,000 compared to 62,0...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 11:03 AM
There's an old saying that there are no Republican folks songs. But now,
at least, there are Yiddish curses for Republican Jews: link
Continuin...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 7:00 AM
While Monday technically contained a modicum of economic data in the form of the Chicago Fed's manufacturing index, the first potentially market-mov...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 4:24 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
The biggest story of the day was that there continue to be no big stories since last week's FOMC...
Tue, Aug 28 2012, 2:29 PM
Mortgage rates moved moderately lower today in most cases. Although the drop wasn't fast-paced or abrupt, the recent range of rates has been extrem...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 11:10 AM
Well, this is the week that many Secondary Marketing folks have been
dreading. It is the last week of the
month after a sell-off, and there are ple...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 11:09 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
The week is off to the slow and relatively sideways start as expected with much of the volume acc...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 6:59 AM
The week ahead has potential to offer decent amounts of markets movement only to the extent that it's economic data and auctions deviate from expectat...
Mon, Aug 27 2012, 4:22 PM
MBS Live : MBS Afternoon Market Summary
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Mon, Aug 27 2012, 2:51 PM
Mortgage rates moved gently higher today in most cases, though some lenders were unchanged and in rare cases, slightly improved. There was little b...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 11:53 AM
As I've gotten older I've developed the unusual ability to stare at
something and not see it. I am particularly good at doing this with car keys on
...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 11:36 AM
MBS Live : MBS Morning Market Summary
MBS enjoyed a fairly strong morning, rising to recent highs after a rather uneventful and moderatel...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 11:18 AM
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha
Coakley told Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) on Thursday that they must conform
to a new state mor...
Fri, Aug 24 2012, 8:27 AM
Another Friday and another opportunity for markets to "trade it out" rather than react to data and headlines. There's next to nothing on tap for th...
