Tue, Oct 4 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 8:25 AM
Risk aversion pushed the 30-year Treasury to a multi-year high overnight and equities are tumbling hard even after a substantial fall on Monday.
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 5:16 PM
The answer to the question posed in the headline will turn out to be "not in the slightest." But if you happen to have time for more than once senten...
Tue, Oct 4 2011, 4:55 PM
After improving for several days and
falling in line with all-time lows, Mortgage
Rates took a step back today. Just as most of yesterday's ga...
Tue, Oct 4 2011, 4:19 PM
MBSonMND : MBS RECAP
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Tue, Oct 4 2011, 2:29 PM
The Office of Inspector General
( OIG ) for the Federal Housing Finance Agency ( FHFA ) has released critical preliminary
findings from an audit con...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 12:07 PM
A huge crack appeared in the unified front represented by the 50 states'
attorneys general (AGs) on Friday when California withdrew from multi-state...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:24 AM
MBSonMND : MBS MID-DAY
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Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:08 AM
It's off to the races so far this morning as MBS and longer-maturity Treasuries are rallying significantly. Some of the later days in September had b...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 11:04 AM
Well, here
we are. The sun managed to come up (so far at least on the East Coast) after
the temporary loan limits weren't extended. On Oct. 1, the s...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 9:29 AM
With the worst quarter for stocks since 2008 now behind, global investors are hoping and praying for the return of stability and growth. But fears of ...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 5:06 PM
A familiar scenario played out overnight and through the trading session. It goes like this: new information comes to light about the potential for a...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 4:19 PM
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Mon, Oct 3 2011, 4:04 PM
Bond
markets rallied heavily today and Mortgage Rates
continued to improve. Most of the gains were seen in the form of lower
borrowing costs t...
Mon, Oct 3 2011, 1:16 PM
A few updated versions of the charts I posted earlier today. S&P's continue to fall, and 10yr year yields are following along with a high degree of c...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 11:24 AM
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Fri, Sep 30 2011, 10:36 AM
Baseball
fans will know the answer to this one: What's the difference between a hot dog
at Fenway Park and a hot dog at Yankee Stadium? Answer: You ...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 9:00 AM
The final day of the third quarter is off to a weak start as cash flows out of equity markets to send already-low Treasury rates even lower. The culpr...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:54 PM
Mortgage Rates
continued to improve today, adding on to yesterday's already impressive gains. Best-Ex moved solidly down to lower of the
two rate...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 4:24 PM
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Fri, Sep 30 2011, 3:30 PM
In yesterday's commentary, we noted that the stock lever has been well-connected and that the same could be true of today. As you'll see in the chart...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 2:24 PM
The passion Adam Quinones has for improving the entire
landscape of housing finance is undeniable. I've never met anyone who has
cared more about w...
Fri, Sep 30 2011, 1:31 PM
The eight national banks and single federal
savings association servicing the largest loan portfolios reported that first
mortgage performance decli...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 11:24 AM
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 10:58 AM
When it comes to mortgage fraud, the
chickens are still coming home to roost from the housing boom of the last
decade. The Financial Crimes Enforce...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 10:51 AM
With two
business days left in this month, and companies scrambling to fund either high
balance loans or Streamline loans where rates have dropped e...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 8:22 AM
The Treasury market is taking a breather and equity futures are pointing higher following a last hour sell-off Wednesday that pushed indexes down roug...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:51 PM
For the 2nd day in a row, MBS made progress in bouncing supportively off what had once been incredibly firm resistance. We speak of course of the "co...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 4:24 PM
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Thu, Sep 29 2011, 3:55 PM
After leveling-off yesterday Mortgage Rates saw some solid improvements
today, in many cases dropping Best-Execution rates by an eighth of a poin...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 2:40 PM
While
overall rates of mortgage related fraud appear to have fallen significantly in
2011, some particular manifestations have increased dramaticall...
Thu, Sep 29 2011, 2:10 PM
The August Pending Home Sales Index issued by the National
Association of Realtors slipped
slightly from July's numbers, portending a few more ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:30 AM
Most of my
friends barely know what a mortgage broker is, yet the president brought up the
term in a speech: "...it is our responsibility to make su...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 11:19 AM
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 9:00 AM
Lower
interest rates following the Federal Reserve's announcement fueled a surge in mortgage applications late
last week. According to the Mortga...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 8:53 AM
Global markets are mixed as European officials quarrel over the terms of Greece's bailout package, but the U.S. market looks to another day of equity ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 5:30 PM
From MBSonMND : "Things have no doubt been volatile this week. We continue to hear and see that this has more to do with month and quarter-end positi...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:42 PM
After several days of progressively
worse Mortgage Rates , things turned around a bit
today. Or rather, it might be better to
say that things ...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 4:19 PM
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Wed, Sep 28 2011, 2:42 PM
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is requesting public comment on two
alternative mortgage servicing compensation structures . The propos...
Wed, Sep 28 2011, 1:57 PM
HOPE
Now, which was the first program initiated to deal with the mounting foreclosure
problem in 2007, has reached a level of 4.86 million loan mod...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:19 AM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 11:05 AM
Some
things you just can't make up. Arch West died last week of natural causes at
the age of 97, and when he is buried this weekend, Arch West will ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 10:56 AM
Home prices rose for the fourth straight month according to
the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for July which were released
Tuesday. Whil...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 8:40 AM
Global equity markets continue to rally Tuesday as investors bet on Europe finding a solution for its various debt problems.
The Treasury market is...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 5:11 PM
Despite a bit of a bounce back late in the day, MBS sank to 102-00 in Fannie 3.5's by 3pm today. This was the highest that 3.5's traded the morning o...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:50 PM
Mortgage Rates continued higher today with Best-Execution
rates about an eighth of a point higher.
There are
all sorts of challenges in the ...
Tue, Sep 27 2011, 4:19 PM
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Tue, Sep 27 2011, 3:39 PM
Freddie Mac's September 2011 Economic Outlook is focused on the recent Federal Reserve Bank announcement of its Maturity
Extension Program (aka Ope...
Mon, Sep 26 2011, 11:48 AM
Sales of new single-family homes continue to drag along the bottom of their all-time range. In the most recent estimate released jointly by the Censu...
