Thu, Feb 9 2012, 2:27 PM
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Treasuries, MBS Attempting to Turn a Corner Following 30yr Auction - 2:06PM
Volume
surged briefly following th...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 12:54 PM
According to CoreLogic, the Santa Ana
California based provider of information and business services, there were a
total of 830,000 foreclosures na...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 11:59 AM
What,
exactly, qualifies a person as "rich"? It depends who you are - here in
the States the wealth of the top 1% is about 225 times greater than t...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 11:17 AM
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Wed, Feb 8 2012, 8:58 AM
Mortgage
rates broke another set of records during the week ended February 3,
establishing several new historic lows.
In response, the seasonally ...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 8:06 AM
The theme of light economic data continues on Wednesday with MBA
Mortgage Apps being the only item of note. Even then,
it's only notable due to i...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 4:17 PM
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Wed, Feb 8 2012, 3:46 PM
For several sessions in a row, Mortgages Rates
have moved in the opposite direction from the previous session,
although even the bigger examples...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 3:10 PM
For several sessions in a row, Mortgages Rates have moved in the opposite direction from the previous session, although even the bigger examples of ...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 2:05 PM
One of the financial institutions that are
party to the reported settlement agreement with the attorneys general of the
majority of the states is re...
Wed, Feb 8 2012, 2:01 PM
After the 10yr auction, production MBS and the long end of the yield curve didn't move much at first. But it now seems that some additional bid for t...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:29 AM
Details are still sketchy, but
apparently a settlement has been agreed upon between five major banks and a
majority of the states' attorneys general...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:17 AM
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Tue, Feb 7 2012, 11:00 AM
This is
Black (African-American) History Month. The event began as Black History Week
in 1926. For many years, the second week of February was set a...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 7:59 AM
There are all sorts of ways to divide market moving information into
different categories. One of our favorites is also one of the most
broad: sc...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 4:17 PM
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Tue, Feb 7 2012, 4:11 PM
A sub-committee of the House Financial Services
committee today approved the FHA Emergency Solvency Act which is intended to
shore up the finances...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 3:47 PM
Although the recently confirmed 3.875% Best-Execution level remains intact for 30yr fixed, conventional loans, Mortgages Rates moved slightly higher...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 3:06 PM
MBS went through an interesting Employment Friday. I know it’s hard to remember back after a long weekend (especially for N.E. fans), but the bond ma...
Tue, Feb 7 2012, 2:31 PM
Bond markets had already been trending into negative territory leading up to today's 3yr auction, but took a turn for the worse afterwards with some h...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 12:49 PM
( MBS Live ) - Against today's data-free backdrop, the only real market mover has been the earlier scheduled Fed buying (30yr sector of Treasuries) th...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 11:17 AM
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Mon, Feb 6 2012, 10:14 AM
Some will
call this a useful tool and a time saver - others will say it is another sign
of our privacy going away and "Big Brother" seeing everythin...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 8:02 AM
The Employment Situation Report is normally preceded by "sideways
uncertainty" and followed by noticeable directionality. But this time
around, t...
Mon, Feb 6 2012, 4:41 PM
The
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Treasury issued the
administration's January Housing Scorecard on Monday. The report i...
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...
