Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:17 PM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:17 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association
(MBA) reports that commercial and multifamily loan originations were down 7
percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 c...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 3:34 PM
Following Friday's employment data, Mortgages Rates
moved quickly higher. In most cases, the changes were seen not in the quoted interest rates t...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 1:26 PM
The list of Improving Housing Markets (IHM) maintained by
the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) took another big jump in
February, rising...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 11:21 AM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 10:34 AM
The e-mail
wires here in Miami have been burning up with...e-mails.
PHH clients received a note from Norm
Fitzgerald ,
explaining the recent re...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 9:18 AM
The recent drop in rates has created some
interesting situations in the market, especially for lenders . First of
all, I'm not aware of any c...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 8:00 AM
First Friday of the month and time, once again, for The Employment
Situation Report, or more specifically, the Non-Farm Payrolls headline.
Both M...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 4:21 PM
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Fri, Feb 3 2012, 3:44 PM
Three major banks and Virginia-based
MERSCORP, Inc. and its subsidiary Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems
( MERS ) were sued Friday by the st...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 3:01 PM
The monthly Employment Situation Report was released at 8:30am this morning, with much better-than-expected results. Stocks rallied sharply and most ...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:45 PM
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told
the Financial Stability Oversight Council that the financial system is getting
stronger and safer and tha...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:40 PM
HOPE NOW, the voluntary private
sector alliance of mortgage industry stakeholders, recently concluded a two day
conference in Washington which focus...
Fri, Feb 3 2012, 2:09 PM
There is plenty of play-by-play on the post-NFP sell-off in the MBS Recap . If you haven't seen those updates already, that's a good place to start,...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 12:50 PM
We've posed this question almost a month ago ( read more... ) and the answer is fairly similar this time around. That said, MBS prices are higher ...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 11:22 AM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 9:18 AM
Yesterday,
as I was standing in line at Franklin's BBQ in Austin, Texas, my head began to
spin. Not because of the great smell, or from wondering wh...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 9:01 AM
Four
former investment bankers and traders from the Credit Suisse Group were charged
by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday vio...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 8:06 AM
Domestic economic data is in slightly shorter supply on Thursday
after two more robust days. But what it lacks in sheer number of
reports, it mak...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 5:22 PM
CoreLogic and Lender Processing Services
(LPS) have each released their most recent Home Price Indices . CoreLogic's HPI covers December; LPS's cov...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 4:22 PM
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Thu, Feb 2 2012, 4:14 PM
Homeowners who refinanced their homes during the fourth
quarter of 2011 either refinanced for about the same amount or actually brought
cash to th...
Thu, Feb 2 2012, 2:59 PM
For the second day in a row, Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged. Best-Execution
remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fi...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 11:22 AM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 11:06 AM
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out a Blueprint for an America Built t...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:48 AM
10:24AM (MBS Live) - Bond Markets Continue Weakening After Latest Data. MBS Outperform
Longer-dated Treasury yields continued to climb this mornin...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:34 AM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) announced
today the first step in a new initiative to convent foreclosed properties (REO)
in the hardest...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 10:20 AM
Here we
are in February already, which has Valentine's Day. Some guys out there look
forward to that day with about as much anticipation as hugging ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 8:50 AM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey
reported that mortgage applications as measured by its Market Composi...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 8:02 AM
Wednesday brings another relatively robust set of economic reports in
the morning, but those reports will have to speak fairly loudly in
order to ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 4:22 PM
Saying that the housing crisis struck right at the
heart of what it means to be middle class, President Barack Obama has begun to
flesh out the h...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 4:22 PM
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Wed, Feb 1 2012, 3:53 PM
The Mortgage Bankers Association ( MBA ) provided its annual
assessment of The State of the Mortgage Industry in a press conference Wednesday
afte...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 2:17 PM
The Attorney General of Oregon announced
today that he will join in the so-called 50-state Attorneys General settlement
with five major financial ...
Wed, Feb 1 2012, 1:50 PM
Mortgages Rates
are just slightly better than unchanged on the day. Best-Execution remains at 3.875% for conventional 30yr fixed loans, and the sl...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 11:29 AM
With the 10:00 AM print of this month's Consumer Confidence report, the morning's economic data is done. Stocks and bonds hadn't been too well connect...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 9:52 AM
Do you
think it takes a long time to have a loan purchased by Wells or MetLife? Try
running the world's longest lab
experiment , begun in the 19...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 9:44 AM
The
Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) issued a statement late Monday refuting a
story from ProPublic and NPR
that a complicated investm...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 8:05 AM
Shortly after domestic markets closed on Monday, Greece's PM Lucas
Papademos told reporters that hoped to conclude debt negotiations by the
end ...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 4:15 PM
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Tue, Jan 31 2012, 2:58 PM
Home prices continued to fall in November according to the
S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released this morning. Both the 10-City and the 20-Ci...
Tue, Jan 31 2012, 2:33 PM
After setting new record lows yesterday, Mortgages Rates
rose slightly today, though 3.875% best-execution remains intact. Rather than affect the...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 11:24 AM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 10:55 AM
After the Fed completes scheduled buying in 8-10yr maturities at 11am, potential market movers on the calendar are in short supply. Even then, the bi...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 10:09 AM
Sorry, did
I hit the incorrect letter? The Administration announced important enhancements
to the Making Home Affordable Program, including the Hom...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 8:06 AM
This weeks begins the same way last week ended, with Greece's negotiations with private bond-holders in focus. Most recently this morning, the FT is ...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:38 PM
The bond markets took the latest Fed OMC announcements as an "all-clear"
sign to buy Treasuries. The move has
pushed the Treasury yield curve a...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
One of the more confusing MBS topics is the concept of "dollar rolls."
While it seems esoteric, secondary markets people are implicitly considering
...
Mon, Jan 30 2012, 4:21 PM
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Mon, Jan 30 2012, 2:15 PM
It's happened before and it happened again today: Mortgages Rates
hit new all time lows today. Please note, that the actual interest rate you wou...
